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Instana

Need to capture application payloads via tracing

Need to capture application payloads via tracing. The customer stores business data in the application payloads and they want to be able to view that data within Instana and build custom dashboards and write thresholds against the business data. T...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

instana alerts triggered on occurence of several events

Currently it is possible to raise alerts on the occurence of one or more events but event by event. I would be awesome to be able to create alerts triggered on the occurence of more than one event occuring at the same time. So alert condition are ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1

Adding Cluster Operator to monitoring by Instana IBM Kubernetes sensor

It would be very useful to have the ability to monitor the status of Cluster Operators in a Kubernetes cluster. Adding an additional tab to the Kubernetes status (see picture 1) Adding a separate sensor for monitoring Kubernetes Cluster Operators ...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
about 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Not under consideration

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Monitor active jobs

There's a parameter inactiveJobs which checks for specific non-running jobs, but my customer would like to check also for specific running jobs, in the scenario where jobs are running that should not be running. We opened case TS018898330 and got ...
12 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Add Instana tracing support for Wiremock

As explained in TS019691255 Instana does not support tracing for Wiremock-based applications. Wiremock is however one of the most popular testing tool for mocking and testing APIs with broad adoption and very high usage. For us it would be very he...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Allow Admin View all Dashboards

BackgroundCurrently, when users create dashboards and mark them as private, administrators are unable to view or manage those dashboards. This limitation restricts visibility into the full scope of dashboards created within the environment, which ...
9 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration