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Instana

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Want to be able to enrich data based on the entities involved in an Incident and application

I'm working with a customer. The use IBM ACE and MQ. Whenever they have problems with an application or with MQ or ACE, they want to have a screen where they can see and compare some of the key metrics. For example, they want to see the Input/Outp...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Frequent TCP failure Error

The Frequent TCP fails built-in event checks whether the host has an unusual high number of TCP fails. The event inputs are: Metric - Network > Fail Metric - Network > Open/s Request - We need more details to understand the error and then on...
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
10 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana and MS teams notification

Notification integration with MS teams to be two ways for example allow taking action from MSteams
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Dashboards need to be easy to configure and add more applets

OOB dashboard configuration is not enough to handle or present all requirements need to add more applets and can be filtered based to certain text for example
10 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Submitted

Avoid filtering hosts by current availability on Infrastructure Map

Dear colleagues, we have different approaches, for different dashboards. I mean if we switch to application perspective dependency diagram, customer can see transactions and number of calls for past 24 hours even if a server that processed the cal...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitoring Postilion with Instana

Using an Instana tool to monitor and do tracing on Postilion is useful for Capitec bank because it helps ensure that payment services—such as ATM, POS, and online transactions—run smoothly, quickly, and reliably. It gives real-time visibility into...
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
29 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Ability to have a "quick export" of configurations in Instana

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
11 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancer. (Product Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74)

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancerProduct Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74 Attached the screen short of the load balancer with version details.
11 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted