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Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Using Mermaid Chart code to show the user how the entities are connected.

To keep my request easier if an admin can export a Mermaid Chart code (or something like it) that will allow the user to visual see how all the entities are connected. Than the user can use Mermaid to show users how all the entities are connected ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Confirmation Popup When Field Updates Reset or Clear Dependent Fields

Description In Targetprocess, certain field updates can automatically reset or clear dependent fields in related entities. This happens most often with Configurable Dropdown Lists, which can be dependent on one or more parent fields. Currently, wh...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 3 Needs more information

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Instana Synthetic scripts to support SOAP/WSDL format

Instana Synthetic scripts should natively support SOAP/WSDL communication. There's a lot of legacy applications, which are still using SOAP/WSDL method and which should be monitored by Instana scripts.
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

Add Copy Action for ExD entities Detailed View Actions Menu

No description provided
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Needs more information

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Log who triggered an integration sync

In Settings > Integrations > CSV export / import > "View messages log", it is possible to review logs for data imports and exports. One of the events that are logged is "Export run was triggered by USER". It would be a good improvement to...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 0 Future consideration