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Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements

Performance Analyser – Out of the box tools that can be run on a monthly or pre/post build to analyse where there are performance bottle necks or where there are heavy computational elements There are some capabilities in this space that highlight...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time

Operational Controls – Some form of tooling that supports differential analysis on key data points between Dev / Staging / Prod and can hold a record of key changes in volumes / spend over time This will make analysing the net effect of any change...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Needs more information

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Allow creation of a new custom report collection in Bill of IT

For  Bill of IT module, we are required to create a new report collection for saving and efficiency related custom report and keep them in a single collection for customers. We dont want to use Custom Bill of IT reports collection  for t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Planned for future release

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / WAS 2 Not under consideration

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

BoIT locking invoices

Hi Team, We are looking for a solution to add the BoIT invoice-locking idea to the community. This means that there is a feature to lock the Bill of It in synch with the BoIT invoices issued for the same period. Currently, we are unable to do so. ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 1 Future consideration