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ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
27 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Synthetic POP support for the s390x architecture

In order to perform Synthetic Monitoring within Instana a Synthetic POP must be established. Unfortunately container images for Synthetic POP are only available for the x86 architecture. Our Instana environment is running on an OpenShift cluster t...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Instana should display the same choprehensive view of OpenTelemetry-collected metrics as it does for our native Instana Agent collected metrics

When viewing standard screens in the Instana UI the same views and components should be displayed no matter how the metrics are collected. For example on the Platforms -> Kubernetes screen when you view a cluster where the Instana Agent is coll...
28 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
9 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Appeon platform

Appeon PowerServer is a tool that converts client/server PowerBuilder applications into cloud installable applications, Appeon PowerBuilder is an application development tool that allows creating applications, through PowerBuilder the client is cr...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3