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Instana

    Custom Dashboard Panel - Persist with filters values

    In custom dashboard I'm not able to hold/save the custom dashboard data with filter values. So, I'm asking for a change in behavior on the existing preview filter feature within the custom dashboard. Please refer support ticket and attached screen...
    5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Future consideration

    Multiple Tags at Object Level

    Can IBM please add the option to allow multiple Tags to be associated with Objects at an Object level not Agent level, for example MQ Queue Managers / Ace Integration Servers . This is required on a large enterprise to allow custom dashboards to e...
    2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Submitted

    Add Native Alert Ownership and Metadata

    Problem: Instana lacks first-class ownership metadata for alerts. Relying on custom payloads in the alert. Proposed Capability: Owner/team field on alerts Tag-based filtering Alert inventory and export APIs
    14 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1

    Improve Custom Metric Discoverability and Descriptions

    Problem: Metric names are long and unclear, forcing customers to use scripts to understand them. Proposed Capability: Friendly metric names Inline descriptions Plugin → Metric explorer UI Hover/tooltips explaining metric meaning
    14 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

    Ability to have Multi-Metric Smart Alerts for Applications. i.e Health Rules

    Problem: Customers migrating from AppDynamics rely on health rules that combine multiple metrics (latency, error rate, throughput) within a single alert. Instana currently limits application smart alerts to a single metric. Proposed Capability: Al...
    14 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

    Monitor cpu and memory for sidecar container (defined under initContainer)

    starting kubernets 1.33, pods can have containers defined in two ways:- traditional .spec.containers - under initContainers with restartPolicy: Always. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ " Note: In this example,...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

    Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

    Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
    about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

    Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

    In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Under review

    Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

    Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
    8 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

    How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

    MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

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