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Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add support for multiple SaaS Clients connecting to SaaS instance

Today, one can only connect one SaaS Client to a Turbo SaaS instance. But there are examples where customers have multiple datacenters that do not have network connectivity between them. Because of this, they need a SaaS Client in each datacenter ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
7 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Update Java clients such as Administrator GUI to enable authentication with ObjectServer using user account passwords with more than 30 characters.

FixPack 24 enabled non-java based clients to utilize passwords having more than 30 characters when authenticating with an ObjectServer. This is great for probes/gateways however it is preferred to enable the java-based clients (e.g. Administrator)...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Response Time For User Actions

We are using Instana to monitor for our web application availability, performances etc. We would like to have a way to get the processing time or response time for each user actions done on the application. For example: When the user login to the ...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Instana supporting instrumentation of lambda functions using Terraform

As of now, Instana is not supporting AWS lambda functions using Terraform. Few teams in our agency using AWS lambda functions using Terraform and we need Instana instrumentation on these nodes.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Shadows jobs' folders

When the name of jobstream definition contains a folder in workstation name or jobstream name, the associated shadow job goes into error state. Could you add these folders, please?
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Export Config Data to CSV/XML Format As Well

Today, Instana API calls like ../api/events/settings/event-specifications/custom return data in JSON format only. Going forward potential enhancement options: 1) The U/I provides a way to export this sort of config data and allows it to be ex...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor IBM Cloud MySQL DBaaS

We're currently missing the ability to monitor MySQL DBaaS hosted by IBM Cloud in depth. Maybe it's possible to task an agent to connect to a remote MySQL database using a agent running somewhere else. We'd like to get some performance stats, open...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration