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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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Custom Alerts - Missing fields when sent to Alert Channels

Custom Alerts in Instana are missing important fields like below and whereas out of the box alerts are having these values. Even Custom alerts should have below values, when sent to alert channels. 1) IBM Instana IBM MQ Queue - Current Queue depth...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Not under consideration

Propagate pipeline feedback release markers to underlying infrastructure

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=capabilities-pipeline-feedback The pipeline feedback allows to set a release marker on- Global- Application Perspective- Service- Service within an application perspective Only in cas...
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Custom Log Library Tracing - Collecting multiple attributes through Instana Java log.SDK.

Now we can collect log.message of custom log library through log.SDK. But it can collect only one attribute (log.message) and you can not collect multiple attributes. our client's custom log library has several attributes such as bellow. com.clien...
7 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Require Alert Time Window Condition for more than 120 min

We have a custom MQ alert to create an alarm, if messages are not received for more than 12 hours in IBM APM. We have created similar alert in Instana, however alert time window condition is not allowing to add condition of more than 120 mins. We ...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add email in CC as alert channel

Operation team keeps tracks of who is receiving the alert, at the moment once there is an alert, single emails are sent to each email. It would be preferable to have a main email and a list of emails in CC.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Not under consideration

Provide more configurable items for Kafka topic settings in Instana self-hosted operator

During we deploy self-hosted Instana backend in kubenertes via Instana operator, the kafka topics will be created and configured with a couple of specific settings which are likely hardcoded, eg. retention.ms, segment.ms.When customers need to mak...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

add Embed panel support for website integration

partner is plan to integration INSTANA with their website applications, request feature similar to Grafana Embeded graph. https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/share-dashboards-panels/#embed-panel
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Add the ability to identify the requesting IP-Address when using Java-Tracing ( Tomcat/WebLogic etc.)

As described in the title, it would be extremly helpful for our customer if he could correlate traces captured by Instana with the IP-Address of the requesting client. The functionality would be most useful if it was implemented just like with the...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

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