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BI - Re-sort Tabs

Ability to re-order tabs created in BI report.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Not under consideration

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SRE 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Instana to support monitoring of Db2 databases with DPF enabled.

Current Instana Db2 sensor seems to not support Db2 database where DPF(Database Partitioning Feature) is enabled. There is a customer using Db2 database and all their database is DPF enabled. They are looking for a database monitoring solution whi...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Standard Edition preflight check must report all known prereq issues

Currently, when the preflight check is executed, it only reports a subset of the problems. For example, I ran the preflight check on a brand new machine Red Hat with nothing setup. This is what got reported. ⚠️ the host for installation type demo ...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Standard Edition sizing must take into account HPA

The sizing in the documentation and our sizing tools must take into account HPA auto-scaling. We've had environments with customers where the HPA created editional pods to the point where pods are getting evicted. Two things should happen: The HPA...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Condensed Application Perspectives overview for big environments

Hi, While implementing Instana at a major banking IT provider we face the challenge that we need to know the state of 60+ groups of banks in a quick overview. Using APs this is currently not possible. The health state is enough for us to flag grou...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Mask database queries

Hi, We encounter the problem that some database query's may not be visible for everyone.The monitoring is happening on application-side. An Instana agent on the database is not necessary. We have for example a Kubernetes cluster with 10 namespaces...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration