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Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
10 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Align the Azure region names in Cloudability with the actual Azure region names

As can be seen in the attachment, Azure provide two region name standards via the API; PricesExtract.Items.armRegionName which is currently used as the second part of the region name in cloudability, and PricesExtract.Items.location which currentl...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Is a defect

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

KPI widget for Rightsizing is only 10 days, would like it to be 30, 90 and use effective savings as well, toggle for widget configuration

Ask -**Default Period**: - The default period for analysis is currently set to **10 days**. - We aim to extend this default period to **30 days**. **Additional Lookback**: - However, we also need to consider a **90-day lookback**. - Some of our gr...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric in reports. This is for Cloudability in general. Sometimes we want to have the data ordered first by one dimension and then by other and it is not possible. Example first by payer account then b...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Kubernetes Cluster data support for Cloud sustainability Dashboards in Cloudability

Multiple customers are using the Cloudability Sustainability Dashboard which is imperative to understand carbon emissions and other metrics. One of customers are willing to understand the sustainability data from a Kubernetes cluster data perspect...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review