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Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Not under consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Provide typings for NodeJS @instana/collector package

It would be nice to have typings for IDE Intellisense and compile-time checks, as originally requested in https://github.com/instana/nodejs/pull/458. I believe that Typescript plays an increasingly important role in the NodeJS ecosystem with frame...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Node 1 Not under consideration

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Redis db integration issues with instana

NatWest are trying to enable in-depth metric monitoring for the redis instances we are using from IBM by referring to this document, we observed the challenge "Monitoring of Redis Sentinel and Redis with TLS/SSL enabled is not supported." as our r...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

JBoss 7.4.6 and WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) support

Currently the following Java stack is not supported: WildFly Full 23.0.2.Final (WildFly Core 15.0.1.Final) JBoss EAP 7.4.6.GA As a result some endpoints are represented in not human-friendly hexadecimal form (e.g. e49219dd-8f34-4470-bc32-da462e4d6...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Is a defect

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration