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Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Need an option in Instana to save snapshots of a particular application perspective locally and compare them later with another snapshot or live one.

We need to have a option for saving a snapshots of particular application perspective in instana, save it in local. Later compare with another snapshot or the live one. Eg: We have an application perspective created as "xyz" & we have selected...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

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

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / User Interface 0 Future consideration