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Instana

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Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Instana in Jazz for SM

There is a need to integrate Instana portal in same DASH portal as Netcool Omnibus and ITNM. This way administrators would access Instana pages from same portal that contained notification in alarm form that there is an issue with application. Thi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Add customer branding to the User Interface

The idea is to allow configuration of custom logo and theme colors across the UI (and alerts like Email). Since Instana has a wide range capabilitiles, some customers use Instana as a stand-alone tool without other dashboarding solutions. The UI b...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Needs more information

Support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC Driver

We use Fujitsu Symfoware database on mission critical system. This is one of the core component in the system. Could you add the support for Fujitsu Symfoware JDBC driver. Based on the Fujitus document, Fujitsu Symfoware is based on the PostgreSQL...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
10 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade or Agent disconnection

Hello Team, I am recreating this request as we had discussion with backend team ( Jeison) to look into this idea. we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted