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Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Enable custom arguments (e.g. -C) for ud32 and allow running Tuxedo sensor scripts as application user

The current Tuxedo sensor implementation does not support passing custom arguments to ud32 (such as -C <client>), nor does it allow executing shell scripts (e.g. tuxedoShell.sh) as a specific OS-level application user. This causes problems i...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 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

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 1 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Other Tracers 4 Not under 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...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
5 months ago in Instana 0 Under review

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Functionality already exists