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Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description.

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description. For example threshold is configured for generate the event if utilization is more than 80% then what was exact utilization that time (like 81%, 83% or 87% etc)
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
5 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create groups of users to be used for Sharing

Right now you have to select individual people to share a dashboard, report, view with. And if a new person starts on that team, you have to know or remember exactly what things you need to share with that new person. It would be great if there wa...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other 1

Option to group variables on Dashboards - Device Group + Object Group

There are cases where we would like a Device Group (Grouped on location basis), would like to be combined (a AND condition), with a object Group (having a subset of interested objects), which can help filter to see only those critical / interested...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
7 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration