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Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 7 Functionality already exists

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instans custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Want to be able to configured an availabilityZone for all queue managers on a server

Customers are looking for an easy way to setup Availability Zones for their IBM MQ Queue Managers. The environment is setup with RDQM. Therefore, they want to see the Queue Managers independently from the Host Agent. And, they want to put all of t...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Not under consideration

Provide a feature to Disable/Block the tracing of a few specific API calls from the EndUser monitoring

We have started using Instana EUM feature and found that it is tracing and tracking a lot of APIs calls to our feature flag service which we would like to disbale them from Instana. -Ashwin
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration