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Instana

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

Monitoring Appeon platform

Appeon PowerServer is a tool that converts client/server PowerBuilder applications into cloud installable applications, Appeon PowerBuilder is an application development tool that allows creating applications, through PowerBuilder the client is cr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Feature to convert "Global smart alert" to "Application smart alert" when we do it from application perspective !!

For instance, if we have a global smart alert for 404 errors with a static threshold of 5%, and there are 50+ applications that require different thresholds, the ability to convert the global smart alert to an application smart alert from within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 5 Planned for future release

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
11 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration