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Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

CRI-O Container CPU Usage Percentage

ISBANK wants to retrieve and be able create custom events based on CRI-O Container's CPU usage percentage. For CRI-O Containers, would like to use "cpu.used_percentage" just like "memory.used_percentage". The "cpu.used_percentage" could be calcula...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

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
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

A possibility to have fixed Time Range in a specific Custom Dashboard

For example: in the whole Instana UI by default the Time Range is set to ‘Last Hour’ but for the specific dashboard created by myself I want to have it set for ‘Last Month’ and when I will open it, I won’t need to change anything - the ‘default’ C...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration