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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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add floating border in UI

When viewing a call in Analyzing > Call, lets say a DB call lots of data regarding the query will not fit the right hand window. I know that you can hit the "Copy" button or use the slider in that frame but I want to do a screenshot with both C...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

I would like to monitor the health of etcd in a Kubernetes/OCP cluster

As the beating heart of my cluster, I would like to be able to monitor the health metrics of the cluster's etcd database.
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Instana - Adjust Prebuilt time series graphs for optional way to view the trends.

On many time series graphs, it is hard to see if there are any adjustments in the trends with big numbers probably because the y axis starts at a 0 value. We should allow customers to choose within settings if they want to override this default be...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Update Tuxedo prebuilt dashboard regarding default sort

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues grid view, the default sort order is by queue ID. The default should be by # messages (second column) in desc order. Of course the workaround is every time going to the page to change the ...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Update Prebuilt Dashboard for Tuxedo sensor

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues dashboard, we see commas for the Sender PID and Receiver PID columns. However, for the Servers grid on that same page, the PID column doesn't have any commas:1) Please remove the commas fr...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Add Group Descriptions

Today in IBM APM, we can add descriptions to user groups to give more information about what the user group is for. There is no way to do that in Instana today. Can it be added?
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control 4 Not under consideration

Add times in custom payload

Dears, It will be good to have custome payload for time to use it as issue start time and issue closed time.
10 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Get EventId Info from Log.

Dears, It will be better to get EventId info from log file... We should get more info for an EventId from log files...
10 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration