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Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
5 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Planned for future release

AWS Fargate service support

We are currently migrating from EC2 to Fargate. Since the functionality is already available in AWS, via the "Compute Optimizer" feature, I would like some advice in Cloudability on how to optimize the capacity of my ECS Fargate tasks. More inform...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Instana ACE Tracing Should Not Modify MQ RFH2 Header or Message ID

Problem statement: Enabling ACE tracing for Instana introduces changes to MQ message structure (e.g., RFH2 header, CCSID, and traceparent field). This behavior breaks message compatibility with existing systems expecting unmodified MQ headers. Enh...
15 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review