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Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

While creating global smart alert for throughput triggers in Instana , Time threshold Evaluation Granularity showing till 30mins only but if it is available at least for 24 hours, that could be more helpful on tracking more requests.

While creating global smart alert for throughput triggers in Instana , Time threshold Evaluation Granularity showing till 30mins only but if it is available at least for 24 hours, that could be more helpful on tracking more requests.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

schedule alerts or events on certain days and times. For example: an event is executed only on Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm

Have the option to set the time period in which the alert or event should be executed (as an idea perhaps it is the opposite of maintenance windows)
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to discover newly added services or Agent to Instana

Once applications onboarding to Instana on a daily bases we are looking if we can get notified as and when new service shows up in Instana. This will help us to keep a track on service and host details which got onboarded to Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration