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Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
9 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Receive a newsletter about Instana changes

It would be useful for our customers if we send a (choose one) weekly, bi-weekly or monthly newsletter with all related to Instana, similar to the one that we receive internally at IBM.
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Under review

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Visualize health of application and host in single dashboard/view.

Currently we need to check health of host and applications running on them separately. Since the health of host also affects the application health, it would be good to have a view which shows both application health and host health as one view. i...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Needs more information

Display tag names for Hosts in the Infrastructure view

We have 2 zones defined with each zones having 20 servers for production and integration environments. Since there is no option to enable tag as display names for hosts on zones, its difficult to identify the application servers. It would be good ...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Publishing only select reference data items to open forecasts

As an admin, we regularly update our IT Planning reference data. In some instances, there are times when the updates are unable to be published into an open plan because certain reference data items have changed that are restricted from being publ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release