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Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Allow rotation of all api tokens (access and service) using the api

Please allow rotation of all targetprocess api tokens (both v1 and v2 apis) directly using an API. This would allow us to rotate these automatically without having to change passwords or log into the UI. If api authentication is planning on being ...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Migrating catalogues from 9.5 to 10.1.

There's no documented procedure for migrating catalogs from 9.5 to 10.1 , need one to ensure migration goes smoothly.With requirements , plugins (if needed etc,).
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

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

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.

Add support in REST API to set Dynamic agent offline or online.API should have same functionality as resource.sh. Similiar command to take DA offline (-setOffline) or online (-setOnline)./tws*****/ibm/TWA/TDWB/bin/resource.sh -usr TWS_ID -pwd xxxx...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Unable to upload mdb file type using upload link

When I try to upload a mdb file in the Test Case run, it gives an error of 'Invalid file extension,' but copy-pasting is working.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration