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Feature to filter HTTP calls

Customer needs a way to disable some HTTP calls to be detected, for example filter the calls that contains a specific string in the path
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0

historical baseline available for memory usage which can be used to set an alert.

There are currently no historical baselines available for memory usage that can be used to configure a static threshold-based alert. Since memory usage can vary significantly, it is not feasible to define a fixed threshold value (e.g., 60% or 10%)...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review