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Instana

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Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Documentation for Instana data retention policy

Hello Team, While the current documentation mentions a 7-day retention period for full granularity and the use of approximate data thereafter, there is no detailed explanation about which metrics are subject to random sampling or data approxima...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Under review

Continuous display of Cassandra Nodes data after Cassandra restart

We notice that when viewing the cassandra node where the underlying pod has been restarted, it doesn't display the data continuously even though the node is the same (i.e. same name). If I select the time before restart, I cannot adjust the time t...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 5 Under review

Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Change the Instana Logo on the Homepage and Login Page

Our customer would like to replace the IBM Instana logo on the homepage and login page with their own logo.
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Under review