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WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
23 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Improvement of Display Contents for UNDO Tablespace Usage

The status of the extents in the UNDO tablespace is listed as follows on DBA_UNDO_EXTENTS (oracle.com) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/b56311/statviews_5078.htm: ACTIVE EXPIRED UNEXPIRED However, according to information from Oracl...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
28 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
6 months ago in Instana / Python 2 Planned for future release

make rate of two custom events alertable

Currently we are able to create eg. smart alerts on a metrik over custom range of http between codes >= 400 and <= 500. But there is no way to relate that to another metrik e.g. custom range of http codes between >= 200 and < 400 as 'g...
15 days ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 1 Needs more information

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues. Some kind of local buffer to handle/accommodate if there are any connectivity issues
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review