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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
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Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
16 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
16 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Submitted

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
16 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
17 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Please can you impement support for importing tags from DataDog that have already been imported into datadog for example azure

This will reduce duplication of tags as SaaS and IaaS only need to be tagged once rather than duplication.
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Transform data on custom dasboards

It would be helpful if there is a possibility to transform Data in a Widget as some raw values aren't easy or helpful to visualize. As example, we get from a prometheus endpoint a metric providing raw values as bits, but in the Widget I would like...
17 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

A more robust Impact cluster failover is needed as the current heartbeat to nameserver primary is not sufficient

Currently, if the Primary Impact server is "crippled", meaning it is still up but is no longer able to process work, it can respond to heartbeat ping requests from the cluster members, causing the cluster members to think they do not need to assum...
21 days ago in IBM AIOps Insights 1 Submitted

Support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, able to see Splunk applications through the Instana Portal.

We want monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application in the Instana application perspective. As per the IBM support, there is no support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, you will not be able to see any Splunk hosts or ...
21 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

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