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WebMethods Integration Server internall calls filtering

Hello, Currently there is a functionality that enables monitoring of all WebMethods Integration Server internall calls https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=machine-configuring-java-sensor#enabling-internal-service-calls-...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Support for FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP, a PHP server built on top of Caddy, was recently adopted by the PHP Foundation (see https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation and https://github.com/php/frankenphp), and it can be us...
about 2 months ago in Instana / PHP 0 Under review

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description.

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description. For example threshold is configured for generate the event if utilization is more than 80% then what was exact utilization that time (like 81%, 83% or 87% etc)
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Adding a Javascript API(Function) in Instana Javascript Agent(eum.min.js) for improving SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring

Currently, there's only one function, "autoPageDetection - True" of javaScript agent(eum.min.js) for SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring in Instana EUM. This is quite a good approach to SPA developed via the development framework such as React...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 2 Functionality already exists

log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review