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Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 2 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Session Starts asociation with UserID in Mobile

Currently, in Mobile, Instana is not associating the UserID with beacons generated before the user logs in. This causes the first "Session Start" of a session to lack the linked UserID, affecting user count metrics and the accuracy of user trackin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Future consideration

Time-rage per widget

All widgets in Instana's custom dashboard follow the same time-rage (from the top right corner of the UI). This idea is for each widget to be able to override this time range.
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Enable native distributed trace continuity across AWS Lambda functions orchestrated by Step Functions

We are implementing a serverless architecture with the following flow: API Gateway → Lambda → Step Function → Lambda Instana correctly traces the Lambda functions individually, but the distributed trace is broken when execution crosses the AWS Ste...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Need to use Queue Usage type like XmitQ in Events / Smart Alerts

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using Tivoli Monitoring and consider move from ITM to Instana. The customer uses ITM situations like below to raise notifications when Message Depth of transmit queues are growing: ( Current Depth >= 5...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Need to improve accounting/billing capabilities

I'm working with a customer that wants improvements in the accounting and billing capabilities. First, they want a very clear and easy way to see the projection for the month. Ideally, just a number that we report rather than having to flyover the...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Need to use "Queue Monitoring level" in Events / SmartAlerts

Dear Colleagues, our customer consider move from Tivoli Monitoring to Instana. At the moment they have many Tivoli Monitoring situations which use "Queue Monitoring level", for example: *IF *VALUE Queue_Status.Oldest_Message_Age *GT 420 *AND *VALU...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Need to monitor IBM ACE Integration Node status

Dear Colleagues, Our customer is considering move from Tivoli Monitoring to Instana. They actively monitor ACE Integration node status (Broker) with situations which raise an event once the state is unexpected, for example: ( Broker Status != Star...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review