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I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one: ht...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
about 24 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

How handle common files and credential file in xml, js and xslt format.

1. We have more than 100 files like error handlings or message in xslt. Can we upload these in store:// folder which can be visible to every domain ? 2. We have also some credential files in local folder of few domains. How can we handle these cre...
2 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Instana lose visiblity to POSTGRES DB (running on OCP) after the POSTGRES cluster restart, it resets to default settings

We are trying to monitor CP4AIOPS & CNEA/AMS on OCP. We follow the document (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql#enable-statistics-collection) to enable tracking so Instana can mon...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
19 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Session Duration Tracking in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide a way to determine the duration of a user session, either via the UI or API. This feature request proposes adding functionality to track and retrieve session duration, including the total time a user spends logg...
3 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Add option for aggregation function (avg, max) for custom metrics

Hello, Can you please add an option to chose aggregation function when displaying custom metrics? In attached example you can see that metrics are collected every 1 second but when you choose larger time interval then instana automatically aggrega...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted