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Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Closed Project Codes non-selectable in Plans

This would be useful because Project Codes close during a fiscal year and need to be retained in reference data for the associated line items in the plan. However, if end users are unaware that a code has been closed, they can still plan expenses ...
18 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
18 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
19 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
19 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
5 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
7 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Export Layout Feature - maintain column header layout but do not consolidate underlying data

Current when you export, the data below is grouped and text shows as " 2 Unique, 5 Unique". Idea is that all data would be expanded to it's lowest level while maintaining the header formatting. Expanding each column individually is not an option u...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Planned for future release

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
4 months ago in Instana / API-C 4 Future consideration