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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

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
10 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Expose View Details to Non Admins

We would like our end users to have visibility into how a View is created, but without giving them rights to create/edit views. This will empower them to fully understand how a view is defined. We should give read-only access to View tab to non-ad...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Migrating catalogues from 9.5 to 10.1.

There's no documented procedure for migrating catalogs from 9.5 to 10.1 , need one to ensure migration goes smoothly.With requirements , plugins (if needed etc,).
21 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Insights on usage

It would be nice to have some tracking information regarding the usage of some views/reports/dashboards/boards. Every so often, we review the left navigation in ATP and try to minimize the length of it. Knowing that views are used a lot vs. never ...
21 days ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Future consideration