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Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Instana agents count metric not available in Smart Alerts

From customer: While attempting to create an alert to monitor the metric "Count (Number of reporting Instana Agents)", we noticed that this metric is not available under: Infrastructure → Create Smart Alert → Metric → Select metric, Interestingly,...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

take off the menu bar when I save a dashboard as PDF

the customer wants to save the information that a dashboard shows, but the PDF shows a menu bar over the information. I uploaded the PDF that was generated with the menu bar and the second file is an example without the menu bar.
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1

Instana SaaS must support Dual(Multiple) SSO in the same tenant as Dynatrace is supporting now.

My customer is using Dynatrace that supports Dual SSO, so they are using SAML via Okta for SSO of regular employees and Azure SaaS AD for SSO of partner employees both are having different email domains.However, I got answered from IBM Support tha...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
12 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Under review

Monitoring/compatibility issue: jvm_attach_generic - part of magic xpi monitoring

As per the customer- The host agent cannot attach correctly to this Java Virtual Machine. Therefore, this process will not be traced. Refer to the host agent logs for more information as to why the attachment failed. The host agent will try to con...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS by supporting "User sessions query"

Dynatrace provides the User sessions query with SQL-like methods It is a functionality to query and view various metrics in a table.
2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 3 Needs more information

Set Two-Factor Authentication from the Administrator User

What do we expect?: The option to set "Two-factor authentication" (in Settings - User Settings - Personal Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings - Two-factor authentication) in the Instana SaaS Backend ca...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release