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Instana

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Alert to detect AZ wide failure in public cloud

When the node failure occurs, we can set "Host Availability" alert. When the az wide spread failure occurs, lots of this "Host Availability" alert will be generated at the similar timing. But to identify that failure is az / region wide more clear...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Naming vSphere datacenters in Instana

Customer is monitoring the vSphere datacenters in Instana. All the vSphere datacenters are reporting with same name in Instana, which leads to customer NOT able to monitor properly or confused between the vSphere datacenters. Is there any feasibil...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Instana ServiceNow Service Graph Connector API

Instana currently integrates with ServiceNow for forwarding the events. However, there is no capability available to integrate with the CMDB to sync data. One of our customer is looking for an Observability solution for their IT Infrastructure (50...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review