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Instana

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Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Specify multiple threshold values, to have different during day/night

Our network traffic pattern is similar to a sine-cure. During the day, around 100 000 request and during the night, around 20 000 calls. The reason for this pattern, is simply that our end-users are sleeping during the night thus, a less number of...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

To hide confidential information on Instana's analysis screen

When we are using Instana, currently Instana is displaying http request as below."POST / api / v1 / users / 123456789 / XXXXXXXXX" To hide confidential information, is it possible to display "POST / api / v1 / users /" on the analysis screen? And ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

PHP 8.3 support

PHP 8.3 was released on 23 Nov 2023. Instana only supports 8.2, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
over 3 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

FR - Python sensor support for Tornado 6

At this moment instana python sensor it's only support Tornado bellow version 6.0.0 but we need to update and app that depends on Tornado 6.1 and we need the Instana monitoritation. It's possible add support for Tornado >= 6.0.0 to Instana Pyth...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 3

Supporting aio-pika 6.7.1 library for Python application

Hi, We our Python application makes calls to RabbitMQ by using aio-pika library and in Instana we dont see these calls.Could you please look at it and add supporting this library?Thank you.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration