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Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
over 2 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Support Spectrum v10.5(21.2.1) in nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba probe [Case number: TS006479579]

More details available at [Case number: TS006479579] Hi, We Citigroup are using Broadcom spectrum product to monitor Network and want to forward the alerts event to Netcool Corba probe if any issue. Currently IBM Netcool nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba pr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Functionality already exists

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv1)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Monitoring Artemis MQ with Instana

Dear IBM Team, We utilize extensive queuing for our applications and are planning to transition to Artemis. To ensure seamless monitoring, we would like to integrate Artemis MQ with Instana. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards, Meghraj Ram...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists