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Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Planned for future release

The system importance needs to be idicated in the Infrastructure Map

In the infrastructure map, pillar hight is shown as the machine size (such as 4core small, 32core high)But for the operations of the systems, the machine size does not matter, but the business impact is important for us. Currently in the infrastru...
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Allow fields customisation on Events dashboard for sorting

Dear colleagues, our customer is actively using Events dashboard and would like to be able to sort events by severity of the events in a list. Please consider implementing the feature of customising fields and sorting by them. Thank you
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration