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Instana

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Option to discover newly added services or Agent to Instana

Once applications onboarding to Instana on a daily bases we are looking if we can get notified as and when new service shows up in Instana. This will help us to keep a track on service and host details which got onboarded to Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
12 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Need instana support for kubernetes traefik

Many customers using kubernetes tracfik as their web server in China mainland. We need instana support for Kubernete tracfik to development business.
8 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration