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Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event

Enhance Synthetic smart alert to support multiple tests failure to generate a single event. Slack Thread : https://ibm-security.slack.com/archives/C03PE83TQ59/p1717529847084299
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

To be able to see POST parameters in Instana

The URI of the service called from the screen in the package used by the customer is /cc/claimcenter.do. Currently we cannot check that "which function to call is written in the parameters in the POST".So it will be great to see POST parameters in...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to threshold using COUNT even if the object is NOT an entity

Currently, Instana allows you to use a COUNT evaluation within the system rules. This allows customers to COUNT entities that meet a certain criteria. For example, count the number of processes that are running. But, there are number of customer u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

Add notes in application logs after instrumentation on how to disable auto-instrumentation for the application

When we instrument the containerised application, and some errors prevent it from starting, customers complain that instrumentation breaks the application. Some of them uninstall autotrace-webhook, some disable Autotrace Webhook, some add a namesp...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration