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Instana

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Feasibility to embed Dashboards in external Web app

Some dashboards i would like to embed them in one of our internal web app. This will be useful to quickly view dashbaords from the app without navigating to Instana.
9 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Grafana like filtering option on SLO Dashboard

Hello, I wanted to create a SLO dashboard on instana and allow users to toggle between service using a drop down menu rather than creating 1 dashboard per service . Example via Grafana : * Grafana allows users to create variables using certain que...
13 days ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Need to be able to observe all events applied to Infrastructure map

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Infrastructure map for wall screen monitor. And they ask for ability to map all events on the zones/pilars of Infrastructure map. At the moment it looks like if something happens with pod, or application cust...
13 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Make Instana redis sensor support DragonflyDB, the Redis-compatible alternative

Many customers run DragonflyDB (a Redis-compatible alternative, instead of the standard Redis.) to host their applications, which claims provide better performance, more memory efficient, simpler operations, and dramatically lower cost. Since Drag...
14 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana Synthetic scripts to support SOAP/WSDL format

Instana Synthetic scripts should natively support SOAP/WSDL communication. There's a lot of legacy applications, which are still using SOAP/WSDL method and which should be monitored by Instana scripts.
21 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
22 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Mobile Layer DNS break requires just like Web layer request DNs Capture

As we have the mobile app and webapp we wanted to traces the DNS for web and mobile breakups for the mobile app and web app,
23 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Distributed tracing up till the last tier

As we have the latency monitoring in instana, But we could not able to see the End to end tracing in the instana. Some exaples like if the Mobile user is requeted and we want to see the compplete behaviour and request time and response time on eac...
23 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
23 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted