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Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Under review

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Idle Timeout should also consider user inactivity - not only when instana browser is hidden

At the moment the "Idle session timeout" you can set in Instana Authentication Settings only triggers when the Browser showing Instana UI is hidden (minimized to task bar). But it does NOT trigger when browser is left wide open but there is no Use...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Instana for Zos with CTG on Linux

Hi, We are currently deploing our CTG on Linux (out side of the zOS) and we are planning to use instana for Zos. Can you provide support for the CTG on linux with instana for Zos so we would be capable to trace for CTG to zos workload. Regards, Be...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
9 months ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1