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AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Delivered

Abilty to alert on EUM resources using SmartAlerts

currently The customer has the issue that sometimes google analytics is not working for our website "ccp-frontend-new". For that time they see in Instana that there are no resources loaded for GA (which is great to see).Therefore The customer want...
over 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Delivered

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

PHP 8.2 support

PHP 8.2 was released on 8 December 2022. Instana only supports 8.1, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
almost 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

Synthetic monitoring - Be able to do security request (auth)

Currently, it is possible to create a test suite in javascript where the auth data (token) is set through headers.It is true that this token that is generated must be done using basic authorization data (client id, secret...) that are exposed in t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Support AWS API Gateway

Customer asked if Instana could extend their monitoring capabilities by adding AWS API Gateway to the supported technologies.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Time Shift in K8S and other views

It would be great to have "Time Shift" (from Applications) to other views. In particular it would be really useful at a Kubernetes Service/Deployment/Pod... level to compare the CPU/memory/etc. usage based on previous periods especially comparing ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Delivered