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Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
21 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Calendars

Our client requires: An intuitive UI for calendar management, enabling the organization of periods that define which user groups monitor specific resource types. For example, the calendar “Team nights and weekends DC1” includes two periods: ...
28 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
8 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Instana SaaS on Azure

In Norway and Nordics Azure is the most used public cloud. Clients have committed spedn to Azure and would like to procure Instana as SaaS hosted in Azure. Ideally also to be able to purchase Instana SaaS through Azure Marketplace.
8 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Expose container name as part of Kubernetes cost information

We would like to be able to generate dashboard based on Kubernetes costs and we need finer granularity than cluster name. It would be really helpful to also have the container name.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

when upgrading, we may not be able to upgrade as quickly as IBM releases (quarterly). We shuld be able to upgrade from a few revisions behind without having to do intermediate upgrades. i.e. 4.9 to 4.12 should be done in one step, not 4.9 to 4.10 to 4.11, etc.

will make it easier for environments who can't upgrade as quickly as ibm releases
15 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release