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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Future consideration

To be able to monitor Nginx and PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration

Remove Android Character Limit

I would like to request that the android-agent in the CustomEvent file be updated to remove the 1024-character limit on logs. This is because the current limit is causing logs to be truncated from Android devices, whereas they are not from iOS dev...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future 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
4 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
11 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

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