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Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event a...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
17 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
4 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 3 Functionality already exists

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Submitted

Request for support of metrics/thresholds that are not available in Instana today for Linux (LZ)

An IBM customer moving away from ITM into the realm of Instana. They are looking for product enahncement to get all the metric/thresholds they are using to be available in Instana. See the list below for the supported metrics/thresholds that are n...
27 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted