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Instana

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Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Enhance EUM to include Session Replay

We have application teams who are using Dynatrace's Session Replay feature. To move to Instana they are requiring this feature.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Let integration with elasticsearch include filters of entire application perspective

Dear colleagues, at the moment button appears only on host, port, container dashboard: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=logging-elk#accessing-elk-from-the-instana-ui and leads to the correspondent item only. Please c...
24 days ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
24 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
24 days ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
12 months ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Include time range in exported dashboard

When exporting Dashbaords (ie/ PDF) time range seclected is not included. Thefore if ther is no time series then we have no clue on what is the time range of the shown metrics
25 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review

KeyDB Sensor

Customers using KeyDB
25 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted