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Instana

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Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

Create Business Perspective per Process Application

When creating a new Perspective in the Business Monitoring capability of Instana I would like to be able to filter on Process Applications to be able to create a Perspective per Process Application. All business processes for that Process Applicat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
5 months ago in Instana / Ruby 2 Future consideration

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration