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Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

API for threshold creation and query

Hi Team whatever in Restful API v2 or v3, we can see there are lack of useful API to query and create the threshold for device Pain point: In API v2, we can only see an API to fetch all metric threshold, it can't fetch by device ID. If the number ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Instana's Microsoft SQL Server sensor not supporting client-side tracing for PHP application for customer

Customer- SBM Limited has a PHP application instrumented with the Instana agent on CRM APP Server where database calls are not appearing in the Instana traces. SQL queries to mssql are missing. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0...
2 months ago in Instana / PHP 1

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration