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Display tag names for Hosts in the Infrastructure view

We have 2 zones defined with each zones having 20 servers for production and integration environments. Since there is no option to enable tag as display names for hosts on zones, its difficult to identify the application servers. It would be good ...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Needs more information

Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Support InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent

We have a system where InfoSphere DataStage is main component. In this system, we take a long time and cost to collect metrics and evaluate it. Please support the InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent. Our InfoSphere DataStage is 11.7.0, ...
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

KeyDB Sensor

Customers using KeyDB
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 6 Planned for future release

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
12 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
8 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues Based on the case TS019228912, IBM stated that the custom payloads can be only attached for "Issues and Incidents" type of events but not possible for "Monitoring Issues". Therefore, IsBank would be a...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pass a dynamic instana custom dashboard link in the alert

Customer want to pass a dynamic instana customer dashboard link in the custom payload of the alert that has dynamic filters based on the entity in alert.for example customer has a custom dashboard that show queue usage statistics over time. when a...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration