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Enable INSTANA auto-tracing for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Hi Team, I am creating this ticket as a follow-up of https://support.instana.com/hc/en-us/requests/23465. We at Arlo are using Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), a fully managed, highly available caching service built for Amazon DynamoDB. With cur...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Add ICMP and SNMP polling to Netdisco Observers

When ASM/Topology Manager is able to discover network and device structures via its Network Discovery Observers, why shouldn't it use this knowledge for performing healthcheck via ICMP and SNMP on this devices as well?
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Create an Instana agent sensor for CP4D

While Instana can generically monitor the infrastructure, OCP cluster and services that make up CP4D, it does not collect and visualize any specific internal CP4D metrics. Instana agents use sensors to monitor various technology components which c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Reminder message for user if the logging level is left outside of Info.

Oftentimes if there is an issue where a customer has to do some deep digging on an issue the logging level is changed from Info to perhaps Debug or Trace level. Sometimes mistakes are made and the logging level is not set back to Info. When this h...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the DB2 sensor to be able to monitor the DB2 diag log (db2diag.log)

The DB2 diag log (db2diag.log) contains a critical set of information for customers wishing to monitor their DB2 servers. Many Warning and Critical conditions are logged to db2diag.log. In addition, for customers looking to migrate from IBM's olde...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration