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Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Job/schedule report in table format rather than just dump filr in IWS format

if any team wants their scheduls/job details in table format like ABC job runs at this job,with this depedancy(list of all depedanies),part of this jobstream etc etc so this will be easily reable/understanble for normal user than checking and unde...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

increasing workstation or dyanmic pool name name lenth to as much as max size

Current mac charchater size is 16 character , but with dynamic pool , 16 characters are not enough for name as many client have Many dyancmi pool so setting diffewrnt name by following stabndad as well is very difficult so I would suggest to chang...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues Based on the case TS019228912, IBM stated that the custom payloads can be only attached for "Issues and Incidents" type of events but not possible for "Monitoring Issues". Therefore, IsBank would be a...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pass a dynamic instana custom dashboard link in the alert

Customer want to pass a dynamic instana customer dashboard link in the custom payload of the alert that has dynamic filters based on the entity in alert.for example customer has a custom dashboard that show queue usage statistics over time. when a...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Custom metadata for definition objects

We would like the ability to add custom key/value metadata to all object types in the database. We utilize a lot of custom scripts to monitor and maintain our IWS system. This is useful in scripting scenarios where you need to make different decis...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration