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Instana

    Alert mail includes the timestamp in specified timezone

    When incident happens, Instana can send the incident mail, and in the mail there is timestamps when the incident starts or closes. But it's timestamp is in UTC. We want to specify the timezone ( like JST ) in the mail. It can be set per alert-chan...
    6 days ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

    SOC1 Type2 Compliance for IBM Instana

    This idea is to request SOC1 Type2 compliance for IBM Instana. For some customers, SOC 1 Type 2 compliance is a prerequisite; offerings that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.
    7 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

    Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

    Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
    3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0

    Requesting the ability to perform incremental backups to Instana backend self-hosted.

    Adding an option for an incremental backup would help reduce product downtime needed for the full backup. This would benefit all Self-Hosted installations. Suggesting the ability to perform a full backup monthly and then incremental backups as nee...
    8 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

    Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

    We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
    7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2

    Feature Request: Support for Legacy/Alternative MariaDB Authentication Methods in Sensor

    We are requesting a feature update or backward compatibility support regarding the MariaDB Sensor. Following recent internal changes to the sensor code, our current environment is encountering errors which are logged every minute in the Instana ag...
    23 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

    Single place to manage agent configuration

    Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
    5 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

    IBM HTTP tracing module on Linux/ppc64le

    We need to instrument HCL Commerce 9.1.19+ IBM HTTP Server v9.0.5.25, but as of today, this functionality is not enabled. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.315?topic=httpd-tracing-modules#ariaid-title7
    17 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

    Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

    Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
    2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

    Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

    The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

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