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How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

Currently, I want to monitor Minio (Object Storage Tool) with Instana in order to have first-hand status information. At this time I have not found any relevant information regarding Instana and Minio for monitoring.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Allow fields customisation on Events dashboard for sorting

Dear colleagues, our customer is actively using Events dashboard and would like to be able to sort events by severity of the events in a list. Please consider implementing the feature of customising fields and sorting by them. Thank you
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Want to be able to enrich data based on the entities involved in an Incident and application

I'm working with a customer. The use IBM ACE and MQ. Whenever they have problems with an application or with MQ or ACE, they want to have a screen where they can see and compare some of the key metrics. For example, they want to see the Input/Outp...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Frequent TCP failure Error

The Frequent TCP fails built-in event checks whether the host has an unusual high number of TCP fails. The event inputs are: Metric - Network > Fail Metric - Network > Open/s Request - We need more details to understand the error and then on...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 2 Needs more information

Include a combobox on AP, Service and Endpoint panel to move to another App, Service o Endpoint easily

Why ?: because returning to the list of Apps, Services or Endpoints is annoying Whose benefit ?: All users of Instana. Should work as a simple combobox with the links.
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Avoid filtering hosts by current availability on Infrastructure Map

Dear colleagues, we have different approaches, for different dashboards. I mean if we switch to application perspective dependency diagram, customer can see transactions and number of calls for past 24 hours even if a server that processed the cal...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review