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Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Report Visibility permissions looking at all a user's roles

We have a single landing page report for a large number of users in our Apptio. This landing page includes links to a range of different reports - some of which are available to all users with access to the system, but others which are restricted ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Under review

Message Bus Probe - opt in/out for Updated JSON parser to remove any new lines in incoming event values

The update made to Message Bus Probe with this: PATCH probe-nco-p-message-bus-22 REVISION 1 - Updated JSON parser to remove any new lines in incoming event values before sending to Non-native process. This is causing huge issues in how we process ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AIOps Incidents dashboard should allow additional criteria

The AIOps dashboard shows incidents by open It would be really useful if users could add their own chart to that to show incidents split by any field of the events in the incident
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Logging integration with Grafana Loki

Feature Request: We would like to connect our Instana with Grafana Loki, so we can benefit from a centralized (Instana) place to view and analyze logs and metrics. Currently Instana supports ELK,Splunk, Coralogix, Humio and Mezmo. Any considoratio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 4 Not under consideration

Db2 custom workload's metrics

Current Instana supports only Db2's default workload (SYSDEFAULTUSERWORKLOAD). In many cases, Db2 users create custom workload(s). Such users would be happy if Instana can collect these custom workloads' metrics.
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 0 Planned for future release

Capability to customize NPI Network Performance Overview Dashboard

Capability to customize Network Performance Overview Dashboard on NPI to remove some of the statistic that are not use.
over 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2 Not under consideration