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My ideas: Instana

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Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Under review

Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Under review

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Under review

Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Under review

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Under review

Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
12 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Monitoring Appeon platform

Appeon PowerServer is a tool that converts client/server PowerBuilder applications into cloud installable applications, Appeon PowerBuilder is an application development tool that allows creating applications, through PowerBuilder the client is cr...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
5 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review