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Instana

    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...
    8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

    Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

    It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

    Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

    We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
    11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

    Instana rest API rate limiting with session token

    Using session tokens, Instana APIs can be called without apparent rate limiting (10k calls under a minute) with 'NULL' payloads while still getting HTTP200 responses.Even using session tokens there should be some rate limiting applied.
    3 months ago in Instana / API-C / Security and Compliance 3

    Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

    To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
    6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

    Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

    We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

    Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

    (Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

    Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

    The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Planned for future release

    Add web browser resource monitoring to Website EUM

    We are using Instana’s Website EUM to gain insights into frontend performance and user experience. However, we’ve encountered situations where users were unable to complete key workflows—such as transactions or form submissions—because their brows...
    6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

    Want RPM based Agent installs to setup a service account and configure Instana to run with the service account

    The customer has a need to run the Agent as a non-root user. In this case, the user can have elevated privileges, but can't be root. The customer would like the RPM install process to have an option to create the user account and then configure th...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Planned for future release

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