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Want to be able to enrich data based on the entities involved in an Incident and application

I'm working with a customer. The use IBM ACE and MQ. Whenever they have problems with an application or with MQ or ACE, they want to have a screen where they can see and compare some of the key metrics. For example, they want to see the Input/Outp...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Ability to have a "quick export" of configurations in Instana

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Need to suppress Memory Alert usage for Standby pods

Here in openshift as MQ is Native HA, we have three pods configured out of which 1 will be active and other 2 will be standby pods. We have configured Memory usage alert based in namespace filtering. Here in MQ, Standby pods use more memory than a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Monitor for port status 'Listening'/'Non-Listening'

We want to monitor for ports on IBMi. Currently the port monitoring is not available to check if a port is listening or not. Currently it only monitors for 'Connection Established status' on the monitored port. But if port is not listening at all ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Under review

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

POST Endpoint for Instana Event REST API

Currently there is no simple way to create Alerts or Alert Channels using the Instana API. Only the PUT method exists which can be used to Create or Update these resources. However, these endpoints require unique IDs to perform these actions, whic...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review