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Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
about 2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration