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Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under 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 (Latest feedback from https://automati...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Future consideration

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Native monitoring and Tracing for RUST

Collection of metrics, traces, and context-rich events from Rust-based services, bringing full-stack observability to one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in modern development. Rust is increasingly being adopted for building high-performance, re...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Mobile Application for Instana

The mobile app will provide end-to-end observability features from App Perspectives and Events to Analytics and Call Track Trace Views, including personalized alerting for teams and individuals. The goal is to deliver continuous insight and rapid ...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration