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Enable Disk Filesystem Attributes (Filesystem Name, Used Space, Available Space) in Custom Payloads

Description: We would like to request the ability to include detailed disk filesystem attributes in the custom payload of alerts — particularly when sending alerts via webhook for disk usage thresholds. Currently, when we configure a custom alert ...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Show timevalue in single stat sparklines mouseover in Instana

In standard instana dashboards there are single stats sparklines. Hovering with mouse over these sparlines gives the value. It would be awesome to show also the datetime to shown value.Our UC is use e.g. standard home dashboard to see affects over...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Under review

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Alert on agents

We need to create an alert when there is a significant drop in the number of agents, currently there is one alert per agent. This will allow us to react quickly on our side in case of a significant loss of agents
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Enable custom arguments (e.g. -C) for ud32 and allow running Tuxedo sensor scripts as application user

The current Tuxedo sensor implementation does not support passing custom arguments to ud32 (such as -C <client>), nor does it allow executing shell scripts (e.g. tuxedoShell.sh) as a specific OS-level application user. This causes problems i...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Monitoring Artemis MQ with Instana

Dear IBM Team, We utilize extensive queuing for our applications and are planning to transition to Artemis. To ensure seamless monitoring, we would like to integrate Artemis MQ with Instana. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards, Meghraj Ram...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Need to monitor compiled python applications with any name of the application

Dear Colleagues, Our customer is using third party python application that they need to trace and monitor, the third-party vendor has issued the application image instrumented with Instana, but the application is compiled for performance reasons a...
11 months ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration