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Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.

Uploaded files into IBM support system must be visible and downloadable to corresponding customers. It will help IBM support and customers to refer to same document and avoid any confusion.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add the request body while tracing in instana

In the tracing view, Instana does not collect any Request Body data/payload on a POST request. Header and Parameters are collected, but not the Body. it would be nice to add the request body so traces become more efficient
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

API - Kubernetes Pod Memory/CPU Usage

The catalog API call for kubernetes pod metrics (/api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/kubernetesPod) got me the following output: "metricId":"cpuRequests" "metricId":"memoryLimits" "metricId":"container_count" "metricId":"memoryRe...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

Make Userid visible in "Top Processes" at the Host Dashboard or make it selectable/visible in Custom Dashbords for processes

Customer wants to see the running Userid of DB2 Instances. Actually it is hard to find out under which user the db2sysc Instances are running. You have to select all Processes and open the Process Dashboard. Customer need this information to easie...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Express JS Errors as a percentage of users or sessions

I would like to view the number of JS Errors as a percentage of users or sessions to better understand how many users are seeing an error. Using absolute numbers is susceptible to changes in traffic and during peak hours we would see an increase i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Enhance analytic view with http class metric

As our dev/test/ops team analyze service trace/call info service request status it would be great to have optional metric http class as single stat in group view
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration