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Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

User/Idle Session timeout should make currently open page unreadable

This is to improve Instana Security Footprint. When Instana UI User/Idle Session timeout triggers, only a small red popup on top right is shown saying you need to reautenticate, but the currently open page is still readable , potenially exposing s...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 7

Add sensor support for NEC WebOTX Application Server

Please add sensor support NEC WebOTX Application Server https://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/webotx/index.html
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration