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Instana

Want the ability to monitor AWS Cloud directly from the SaaS backend

The customer wants our cloud monitoring to execute from the instana SaaS backend rather than running a sensor on a VM. The customer has many different organizations and accounts within the cloud. This means that multiple VMs need to be deployed in...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1

Want the ability to monitor Google Cloud directly from the SaaS backend

The customer wants our cloud monitoring to execute from the instana SaaS backend rather than running a sensor on a VM. The customer has many different organizations and accounts within the cloud. This means that multiple VMs need to be deployed in...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Want the ability to monitor Azure Cloud directly from the SaaS backend

The customer wants our cloud monitoring to execute from the instana SaaS backend rather than running a sensor on a VM. The customer has many different organizations and accounts within the cloud. This means that multiple VMs need to be deployed in...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure 1 Under review

Alternative approach to monitor Solr without enabling Remote JMX

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } For Apache Solr monitoring, it appears that Remote JMX is required. However, since Remote JMX is not recommended due to I...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Capability to change the GitOps branch for the agent offline

Hi, While we are preparing a deployment mechanism for the Instana agent in an air-gapped environment we noticed that it is not possible to change the branch name with offline capabilites. Once it is initially set via the INSTANA_GIT_REMOTE_BRANCH ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1

Backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for a "backup and restore capability for all configured alerts and events" to support operational continuity, disaster recovery, and change management in large environments where hu...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 0 Under review