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Instana

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Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

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...
11 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...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
over 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 4 Not under consideration