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Instana

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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

Visualize health of application and host in single dashboard/view.

Currently we need to check health of host and applications running on them separately. Since the health of host also affects the application health, it would be good to have a view which shows both application health and host health as one view. i...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Needs more information

Display tag names for Hosts in the Infrastructure view

We have 2 zones defined with each zones having 20 servers for production and integration environments. Since there is no option to enable tag as display names for hosts on zones, its difficult to identify the application servers. It would be good ...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration