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Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
6 months ago in Instana / Integrations 3

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Grafana Data Source Alert Management

Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Support for VMware vCenter V8 discovery

Support for the discovery of the VMware vCenter V8 is needed.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Planned for future release

Exadata support sensor for TADDM 7.3

Customer want to discover his Exadata source to improve CMDB and be able to manage it in more controlled manner.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Not under consideration

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

TADDM integration with Ansible

Need an integration between TADDM and Ansible to support discovery of target endpoints (both Linux and Windows servers) located behind a firewall in the DMZ. IBM had previously suggested the use of BigFix for this task, but BigFix is non-strategic...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration