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Instana

    Allow for 4 hour period before alerting (current limit is 120 min)

    This is to allow longer observation of issues before alerting.
    2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Functionality already exists

    Disk space monitor for Windows System Drive rather than hard coded to C:/D:/etc - enable wild cards on specific drives (example disk space has to be specified per drive)

    Disk space monitor for Windows System Drive rather than hard coded to C:/D:/etc - enable wild cards on specific drives (example disk space has to be specified per drive)
    2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

    If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

    With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 0 Under review

    Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

    Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
    10 months ago in Instana / API-C 5 Future consideration

    Implement sensor for observability of applications developed in PowerBuilder

    PowerBuilder remains a crucial framework for massive, traditional ERP and financial systems in sectors such as government, healthcare, and banking. These applications are the backbone of many organizations, but they lack modern observability. With...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

    IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

    The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

    Instana to support monitoring of Db2 databases with DPF enabled.

    Current Instana Db2 sensor seems to not support Db2 database where DPF(Database Partitioning Feature) is enabled. There is a customer using Db2 database and all their database is DPF enabled. They are looking for a database monitoring solution whi...
    4 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

    Expand Instana Severity Levels to match with Netcool Omnibus and other AIOps Event Management.

    Dear IBM Instana Product Team, As a customer currently using IBM APM V8 alongside IBM Instana for application performance monitoring, we appreciate the robust capabilities and insights provided by Instana’s monitoring platform. However, we have id...
    7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

    Enable Native Trace / Call Payload Visualization and Aggregation in Instana Dashboards

    Problem Statement Customers using Instana for application performance monitoring cannot natively visualize or aggregate trace/call‑level payload data (custom tags, request/response attributes, business fields) in dashboards. While payload data can...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

    Enable Instana integrations to IBM z/VM

    zVM is an IBM Enterprise grade hypervisor and there is currently no way to get performance metrices into Insana. Currently zVM can collect metrics from PERFSVM and send them to InfluxDB which is in turn integrated into Grafana via a product they c...
    4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

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