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Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator (SLOv1)

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
over 4 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Can we group all our custom dashboards in to folders

It would be great if we have option to group all our custom dashboards in to different folders
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Not under consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Custom-dashboard filter

Hi, Currently a filter needs to be set on each widget of a custom-dashboard. It would be easier and more efficient if a filter can be set on dashboard level. Thanks for considering this feature.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 4

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Will it be helpful if can create instana filter based on OrgID , eventid etc to get TPS for merchant specific

Get the event transaction detail per second for merchant wise
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists