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Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
9 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

User re-invitation feature is required in Instana SaaS

Currently, there's no re-invitation of User in Instana SaaS. The only way to re-invite specific user is to delete and create again. It's very very inconvenient for our Instana users when re-invitation is needed.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Show alerts using Mobile App

Options to view Instana Alerts using a Mobile App
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under 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

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

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

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review