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Send emails through MS Graph API instead of SMTP

In a few months, our organization will drop SMTP support in favor of sending mails exclusively through Microsoft Graph API. As of today, it does not seem to be supported by Instana. As a workaround, we will migrate our Email alerting channels to a...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Debug Output of Tokens in Probes should be in lexiacal order

"Older" Probes like mttrapd show the received Tokens in the Log File in a meaningful sorting. Younger Probes like MessageBus or ews list the tokens in a apparently random order. Customer uses the debug logs for documentation of different event typ...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Support oAuth for integration with 3rd party platforms

Unlike Basic Auth, OAuth doesn't provide the weakness in sharing password data. oAuth uses authorisation tokens to verify an identity. Many vendors that provide platform access, provide an optional or mandatory mechanism of API access. Versa for e...
4 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 0 Future consideration

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Display all affected MQ MFT Transfers and their TransferID metric values in an event or alert details.

Currently the list of all affected transfers and their IDs are present when viewing the IBM MQ MFT Agent dashboard during an incident/issue window, but they are NOT shown in the incident/issue Event or an Alert that triggered because of the Event....
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Interactive BenchMarking Translation (Japanese)

Interactive BenchMarking is not translated into Japanese. It would be very convenient for Japan customers if it is translated like other products.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Benchmarking 0 Future consideration

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these requests.
11 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

All pages that have a graph and filtering radio buttons should also filter the included data table below the graph

In an enterprise environment, focusing on the critical issues is the primary use case driver of using an APM. As such, being able to quickly, and easily sort and order issues is critical. On the various event graphs there is a radio button to hide...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

event that is triggered in case the oracledb sensor user is locked

If user is locked, no oracleDB metrics are available.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration