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Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

support FastApi 0.115.8 and Celery version 5.5.2 to monitor Python nodes

Looks like Instana does not supports this version for FastApi "0.115.8" and Celery version "5.5.2" Instana requires following version only to enable container monitoring for Python docker services We are using instana version as = 3.4.1 when we ar...
5 months ago in Instana / Python 4 Functionality already exists

Increase max dimensions available on a Cloudability report

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 dimensions for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 dimensions provides. We currently support 15 dimensions in Apptio BI r...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Provide Right Sizing Preferences for Databases and/or split by base organisation.

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base preferences for the RightSizing algorithm for use in the Database section (particularly AWS RDS, and certain DBEngines like PostgreSQL and Oracle). ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Tree view for Projects dropdown similar to Departments dropdown in ITP

Projects dropdown will display top-level nodes with expand/collapse options to drill into lower levels. Provides clear visibility of hierarchy, improves navigation, and ensures consistency with the Departments dropdown. It will save time for users...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review