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Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Enable CSV export of all rows of a report instead of just the data on the current page.

Currently a CSV export of a report widget will only export one page of data i.e. whatever data is shown on the current page. Please provide an option to download all rows of a report widget so that there is no need to page through a report and exp...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Needs more information

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Adding a Javascript API(Function) in Instana Javascript Agent(eum.min.js) for improving SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring

Currently, there's only one function, "autoPageDetection - True" of javaScript agent(eum.min.js) for SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring in Instana EUM. This is quite a good approach to SPA developed via the development framework such as React...
3 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 2 Functionality already exists

log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Device Groups in the Metadata widget: If the source group has child groups, have an option to list only the child groups. Allow for a regex pattern to filter the device groups within the selected Parent.

It would allow the widget to display device groups that were dynamically added. It would allow more control over which groups get displayed.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration