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Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancer. (Product Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74)

Request to support monitoring of A10 Hardware Load balancerProduct Type: ADC, Model: TH1040S version 5.2.1-P6, Build 74 Attached the screen short of the load balancer with version details.
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Need to suppress Memory Alert usage for Standby pods

Here in openshift as MQ is Native HA, we have three pods configured out of which 1 will be active and other 2 will be standby pods. We have configured Memory usage alert based in namespace filtering. Here in MQ, Standby pods use more memory than a...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

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

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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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

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

Make release marker selection time based

In the cause of evaluation of usability of release marker information in ci/cd environment we found it would be extremly useful if release marker selection would also optionally timebased.Please note support ticket TS016695080 related.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration