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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

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

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
8 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

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