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Instana

    Support for MQIPT

    We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 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...
    almost 3 years ago in Instana / Common / User Interface 2 Future consideration

    Go to next/previous windows timerange

    Hello, currently in Instana, we can select a predefined timerange (last 30min, last 1h, yesterday, etc.) or we can customize the timerange with year, month, day, hour, minutes. Once we have this selected, there is no option to automaticaly go to n...
    about 1 year ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

    [python-sensor] - Instrumentation

    Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
    over 3 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

    Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

    Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
    9 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

    Monitoring custom log files in AIX

    We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
    9 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

    Grafana Data Source Alert Management

    Using the Grafana data source for Instana does not allow creating alerts. It would be really useful to be able to manage alerts from Grafana where we already have dashboards with built-in metrics and custom metrics (ie: StatsD).
    over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

    Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 4 Future consideration

    Notification Feature for User Login to Instana

    [Request] Please implement a feature that notifies administrators when a user logs in to Instana, similar to Instana alert notifications. The notification should be sent via email or WebHook etc.
    5 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Application Log Retention Beyond 90 Days

    Background The retention period for application logs is currently limited to a maximum of 90 days.Other APM products allow configuring retention for more than 90 days and provide log archiving features, such as offloading logs to external storage ...
    5 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

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