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Instana

IBM i agent to collect ILE RPG tracing information (iDoctor light)

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and RPG ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investig...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Needs more information

Customization of trace analytics columns

Right now when looking at traces in the Analytics page there's only 3 columns: Service, Timestamp and Latency. This idea is to be able to customize this list to include other attributes and thus modify the sort order.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Planned for future release

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Support for IBM Event Streams 12.1.x

At the official Instana documentation for Monitoring Kafka, the latest version supported for IBM Event Streams is 11.6 and the current version is 12.1.0, I have tested this latest version running on OCP and it works, can you perform a validation? ...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to 'View in Analyze' from widgets in custom dashboards.

When you create custom dashboard, there is no way to 'View in Analyze' when you identify a problem without leaving the dashboard completely. In a custom dashboard, your only options are to 'Zoom to time range' and 'Highlight on all charts'. I have...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 1 Future consideration

All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
11 months ago in Instana / User Interface 5 Future consideration

Support HTTP Parameter Filtering in Adaptive Threshold for Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Smart Alerts allow HTTP parameter filtering only in static threshold mode. However, dynamic thresholds — which offer adaptive baselining and anomaly detection — do not support filtering by HTTP parameters Proposal:Extend adaptiv...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 7 Future consideration