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Instana

    Simplify and Improve the Usability of Instana Must-Gather System

    There are too many links on the Instana MustGathers page, and Instana users do not know which page they should refer to.I would like the system to be simpler—ideally, when a problem occurs, users should be able to run a single MustGather tool, sim...
    4 months ago in Instana / Common 1

    Color-coded highlighting based on ticket status

    Description: Currently, Instana alert emails display ticket/event details in plain formatting. For better readability, we request support for color-coded highlighting based on ticket status. Request: Open Tickets → Title should be displayed in Red...
    8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Planned for future release

    Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

    Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
    11 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

    Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

    Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
    11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

    log instana api request origin e.g. host address

    We have instana monitoring integrated with several tools consuming data from instana via Instana REST API.It would very benificial to have logged either in audit log or/and in api token overview in instana the origin of api request with source ip/...
    4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Not under consideration

    When running Stanctl up, it should be possible to run without doing an update.

    If there is a new version of backend available. You can`t run Stanctl up without doing an update or cancel Stanctl up. It should be possible to do an Stanctl without update. Because if you have some issue and have to restore VM. You want to run st...
    4 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

    Have a method to script for a custom metric

    Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

    WebMethods

    We need more support for WebMethods from Instana. WebMethods API Gateway 10.11 ( top priority ) WebMethods Developer Portal 10.11 WebMethods BigMemory Max 4.3 (Terracotta) WebMethods Centra Site 10.11
    about 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

    Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

    Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
    almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

    Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

    As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1

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