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Sort health column for application in custom table dashboard

We have created custom dashboard to visualize application health (Datasource: infrastructure, entity type: JVM) and want to add tag as column. unfortunately, if tag is added to this table, the health column disappears. We have java 17 applications...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Support InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent

We have a system where InfoSphere DataStage is main component. In this system, we take a long time and cost to collect metrics and evaluate it. Please support the InfoSphere DataStage metrics for Instana Agent. Our InfoSphere DataStage is 11.7.0, ...
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

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

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Extend time window to more than 120 min

Hello, Currently, when creating an event with built-in host metrics, the time window is limited to 120 min We received the following request, which is not currently possible with this limitation : - trigger an alert when a filesystem is > 70% f...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues Based on the case TS019228912, IBM stated that the custom payloads can be only attached for "Issues and Incidents" type of events but not possible for "Monitoring Issues". Therefore, IsBank would be a...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pass a dynamic instana custom dashboard link in the alert

Customer want to pass a dynamic instana customer dashboard link in the custom payload of the alert that has dynamic filters based on the entity in alert.for example customer has a custom dashboard that show queue usage statistics over time. when a...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Integration to load testing tools like Radview WebLOAD

We see some companies use load testing tools that integrate with our competitors such as Dynatrace. An example is WebLOAD from Radview. Can we provide an integration to load testing tools? Its a common problem when we install instana at a POC that...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration