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Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Provide information from textbase MBeans and nested MBeans within Instana.

For the client (Continental) it is very important to see information from textbase MBeans as well as nested MBeans within Instana to determine RC’s. But Instana is not capable to do so because nested Mbeans and textbase MBeans are not recognized b...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Set up monitoring for DB2 threads for Guardian Prod servers in Instana

It is useful for customer to access the real time active DB2 thread counts. It is beneficial for Guardian customer to monitor the ongoing situation of DB2 thread count of cloud activities whether they are heavily consumed or moderate, which helps ...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for Tracing Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP

Customer using Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP cannot trace calls going through this component, losing visibility on the latency and balancing provided by this component. Adding this will complete the view end-to-end of a call entering an OCP cluste...
11 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 1 Planned for future release

"IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfers" is not available in Grafana

"IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfers" is not exposed in Instana, unlike "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Agent" and "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Coordination Queue Manager". This means that you cannot select "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfer...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Retrieving Error Information for traces with the New V2 API Endpoint

We have encountered an issue with the new Instana APM tool API v2 and require your assistance to resolve it. **Problem Description:** Previously, we have been using the endpoint `//api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces/{id}` to obtain details ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Planned for future release

Otel C++ SDK official support in AIX and RHEL

Now Otel C++ SDK is supported only for Ubuntu 2020 and Windows 2016.But in the IBM delivered financial systems, C++ applications are running in AIX and RHEL, which are considered to be more appropriate for Enterprise usecase. Please add Otel C++ S...
11 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Filter the 'Current Transfers' table

The 'Current Transfers' table (for MQ MFT) currently shows the transfers as 'Successful', 'Completely Failed', 'Started' or 'Progress'. Could you add a filter to this table, for example with checkboxes, so we could filter in/out (un)wanted statuses?
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Planned for future release

Reference-able filter of infrastructure entities

User story As an Instana user,who is in the process of specifying a filter on a set of infrastructure entities,in order to view these entities, to detect issues on them, or to configure maintenance windows on them, I want to have a way to persist ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release