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Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Alert Severity - distribution by Policy ID.

The ability to show alerts and show a "distribution by device" is quite useful. However what is really required is to see a breakdown by Policy ID. This can then also be based on a Variable that allows Policy ID selection (i.e. dynamic filter as p...
7 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Variable option for Policy ID.

Whilst the widget provides options to filter on it requires permissions that not all users have as well as changing report behaviour if a user were to set. What is required is a variable that can be used to only show alerts matching one or more po...
7 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Submitted

Improved Global Report Linking rules

We love the report linking capability, however it has some limitations with the inability to create more complex rules. As an example for "Device Type" it only has includes but no excludes. Our use case is to exclude reports for certain types as t...
7 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

System Uptime value should be displayed in years/week/days/hours/minutes.

The default Network Device Summary report in Data Insight displays the System Uptime value in seconds as the default setting. The idea is for the System Uptime value to be displayed in years/week/days/hours/minutes instead, so that it is easier to...
13 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Allow BYOK for data collection

This would allow client to own, supply and manage their own encryption key, stored in their own Key Management Services. At the moment, IBM/Apptio manage this process protecting the client data. This change would provide additional control over da...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Submitted

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
4 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review