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Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Instana SaaS hosted in Azure + Azure Marketplace offering

In Norway as for rest of Scandinavia the main public cloud is Azure. Azure has datacenters in Norway and Sweden, and most clients prefer to host SaaS applications there. Offering Instana SaaS in Azure in Europe would skip questions as mostly all o...
8 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Instana to instrument IBM Financial Transaction Manager and ODM for Payments

Bank client wants to use Instana to monitor traces, metrics and logs from IBM Financial Transaction Manager. Asking for Instana to support FTM observability. Goal is end-to-end observability in Financial Transaction Manager to reduce MTTR for FTM....
8 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Add Otel tags in log volume Analysis

Add Open Telemetry tags filter group in log volume to facilite analysis volumetry sent directly to Instana Backend (without passing through Instana Agent)
8 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

REST API for Custom Dashboard PDF Export

We would like to regularly archive the contents of custom dashboards. Although manual saving via the UI is possible, automation would be highly preferable. Providing a REST API for this functionality would enable automation and significantly impro...
9 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
16 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Persistent filter from Infrastructure to Analyze Infrastructure

Hi team, When we navigate on the Infrastructure section and use Filters, we expect that the Analyze Infrastructure Button that is present in the UI will work the same way as it works for Applications, where we can jump from every level (Applicatio...
22 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Analyze Infrastructure - Name Display improvement

Hi team, when we have entities with long names, they are not fully displayed in the Analyze Infrastructure View (see screenshot attached). In this case, as we identify the entities by the Suffix, we don't see it at all in the result table. We are ...
23 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release