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Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Integrate the BMC Remedy Gateway with a Load Balancer

There is a requirement to integrate the BMC Remedy Gateway with a load balancer such as GTM, however this solution has not been tested or certified and is not working in the customer's environment. Please look into including this functionality in ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Commitment Support for Azure Files Reserved Capacity

A reservation covers storage capacity for Azure Files. Reservations for hot and cool tiers don't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the a...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Support Webex Teams for AIOPS ChatOps

ChatOps would introduce a new way to collaborate that is one of the most important modernizations expected for this customer Operation
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration