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Instana

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Infra metrics for IBM DB2warehouse monitoring

We have integrated IBM DB2warehouse production instance with instana and we are able to access the default dashboard with some metrics. We are exploring the available metrics to configure alerts, but unfortunately we don't see the required metrics...
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Synthetic Secret Management

For Scripted Tests, there is a need for API Keys. These keys are secrets and need a limited visibility scope
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add alerting condition / Request Impact "Total Calls in Alert Scope" to smart alerts

Using smart alerts in Instana, we are currently able to define the absolute number of requests Impacted within the alerting condition (time threshold). See attachment 01 It is however in most cases much more relevant to set up a threshold for a to...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve. If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access. If they were to later join Group B, they would ...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release