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Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
24 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
24 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Gather Serilog data from serilog sink

Serilog uses sinks for writing log events to storage in various formats. Add option for instana to collect Serilog logs with sink to compete with Dynatrace, datadog and New Relic that do this today. This is a list of competitors that already have ...
28 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
about 2 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
29 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

JBoss 7.4.6 and WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) support

Currently the following Java stack is not supported: WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) JBoss EAP 7.4.6.GA As a result some endpoints are represented in not human-friendly hexadecimal form (e.g. e49219dd-8f34-4470-bc32-da462e4d6...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

ITM LO agent dedup feature integrated with Instana

We have integrated ITM LO agent to forward the events to Instana agent; however, we found that the deduplication feature that the LO agent has is not integrated with Instana. For example, in ITM, we can dedup based on the Key attributes such as Cu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted