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Specify multiple threshold values, to have different during day/night

Our network traffic pattern is similar to a sine-cure. During the day, around 100 000 request and during the night, around 20 000 calls. The reason for this pattern, is simply that our end-users are sleeping during the night thus, a less number of...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

PHP 8.3 support

PHP 8.3 was released on 23 Nov 2023. Instana only supports 8.2, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
almost 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

Device Mover GUI Updates

When using device mover it can be very easy or tedious. Adding updating functions to device mover would allow the use of it to become easier. for example adding: a larger selection box under "Device Name" the option to perform one device move by s...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

exclude a specific peer from having new devices added to it

I think it would be helpful if there was a drop down list that you could you add to "Cluster Settings" of available peers that you want to allow to be use when a new device is added, essentially adding the functionality of marking peers or HSA's a...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Drag And Drop within "Object Rules"

It would be useful if you could drag and drop rules with an popup "Confirmation" window within SevOne's "Object Rules" page. Wight now if you need to move a new or existing rule from the top to the bottom it can take quite a bit of time if you hav...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 4 Not under consideration

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Optionally test links as well as page components

Testing a page and the CSS, JS and images that make it up ensures the page is "complete" and works well for transactional websites. For content heavy websites, it's often helpful to also test the pages linked to from the test page. That is especia...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration