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Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...

Have ability to enter a hypothetical Savings Plan purchase amount and terms and return estimated savings and coverage metrics

Problem:Right now the Optimize → Commitment Recs → AWS → Compute Savings Plan recommendation tooling only provides recommendations to achieve maximum savings coverage for current workloads. However, some organizations have a lower risk tolerance a...

Commitment Support for AWS Dynamo DB Reserved Instances

Standard commitment support for this commitment type.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
28 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

ITM TEP Desktop Client - Add User Session Timeout Options

Adding user session timeout options would allow system administrators to better tailor the TEP client for their organizations access/security standards. Some possible timeout options: Idle timeout (minutes): Specify the number of minutes a user's ...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration