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Allow custom events be created for IBM MQ MFT Agent status

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Agent Status is not available as a metric to create a custom event. Out of the box events can't be adjusted per customers requriement. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Agent status when they are in...
3 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 4 Planned for future release

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement

MQ Channel Alert Payload "suggestion" field value improvement. Better value for "suggestion" field is highly desirable. It currently has so much undesired detail with line breaks unlike other alert "suggestion" field. Find actual alert paylod in a...
8 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

We need the plans feature to automatically add new accounts to existing plans

If the plans feature cannot automatically add new accounts, it will be highly inconvenient for customers. Manually adding or recreating a plan for each new account is extremely time-consuming. I recommend that the product team adjust the feature t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 3

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Cldy Forecasting - provide previous period in export as well as forecasted period

For reference when forecasting knowing the previous month vs current forecasted month would be worthwhile when exports are created.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists