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iOs with Netfox library

We propose that Instana consider supporting the NetFox library for iOS applications. This would involve ensuring that Instana's monitoring capabilities can work seamlessly alongside NetFox without causing conflicts or errors in the application's o...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

Story(Incident) in UI should be able to suggest recommendation based on selected Alerts by Generative AI(WatsonX)

The Key use case of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps, “AI Manager” is Proactive Incident Detect & Diagnose by leveraging AI(ML) technology. Story(Incident) in UI at current version, 3.7.x of AI Manager suggests top 3 Alerts which are related to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

There should be a Read-Only option when it comes to viewing applications and resources

Currently, when you grant user access to a role with "manage applications", the user has access to view, create, modify and delete applications. We Do not want to allow a basic operator level user to have permission to modify or delete application...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review