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Instana

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New Joined Hosts to new default zone

Dears, How can we set / configure Instana to add new joined hosts to a certain zone instate of "Undefined Zone"? We need all new joined hosts to be member of "New servers" zone for example instate of "Undefined Zone"... and later we can configure ...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Propagate pipeline feedback release markers to underlying infrastructure

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=capabilities-pipeline-feedback The pipeline feedback allows to set a release marker on- Global- Application Perspective- Service- Service within an application perspective Only in cas...
12 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Add Java Sensor Support for: Jobrunr Scheduling Framework as Quartz replacement

Intoduction: Quartz used to be the standard for scheduling in java application for years. For modern applications JobRunr is the new standard and used a lot in modern applications. https://www.jobrunr.io/en/documentation/alternatives/ Problem: We ...
12 months ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
12 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
12 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Custom Log Library Tracing - Collecting multiple attributes through Instana Java log.SDK.

Now we can collect log.message of custom log library through log.SDK. But it can collect only one attribute (log.message) and you can not collect multiple attributes. our client's custom log library has several attributes such as bellow. com.clien...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Instana presents resource usage additionally display information from a cluster perspective.

The Ccstomer has presented their requirements for monitoring VMware content. Currently, Instana presents resource usage from a data center perspective, but they wish to additionally display information from a cluster perspective
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration