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Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
8 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
11 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Implement support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer.

Implementing support for SNS -> Lambda or HTTPS in the Node.js tracer is useful because it will extend the functionality of the system, allowing integration with additional services that are not currently supported. This will benefit developers...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
8 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists