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Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 3 Delivered

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Delivered

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Instana Self-Hosted make ports 8080 and 8081 configureable

Customer cannot use Instana onPrem environment as onPrem Instana requires 8080 and 8081 ports and doesn't allow to change the ports during installation. There is a software installed on all servers in customer environment as per policy of the cust...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Need to document workaround when Trend Micro is running on Windows servers

When Trend Micro is installed on Windows servers, it prevents the Instana Agent from running properly and connecting to the Instana backend. The customer had to white list the fully qualified path to the instana agent and instanaPCP.exe processes....
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered