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Instana

    Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

    Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
    11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future 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...
    11 months ago in Instana / Common 3 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    11 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...
    11 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

    adding a UI for Custom metric collection with SQL queries

    currently we are using statsD and a too many cronjobs to run SQL scripts to get custom metrics. adding a UI will help maintaining scripts, DB connections and will be easier to create custom scripts and visualize it. Current procedure: install DB c...
    11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

    Viewing IBMMQ Channel Maximum Connection Count Metric

    Based on the case TS020305515, Customer would need to see the maximum connection count of IBMMQ on the Instana UI metrics and to be able to create event based on maximum connection count but not the connection count only (which is already presente...
    5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future 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...
    11 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Planned for future release

    Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

    We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

    Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

    We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
    11 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration

    Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

    Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
    6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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