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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...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Add Visibility for Oracle Database Blocking Sessions

Based on PMR TS019689541, we found that Instana currently hides the blocking sessions widget and shows no message when no Oracle database locks exist. This behavior makes it unclear whether blocking sessions are being monitored or simply absent. W...
3 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Add sensor support for NEC WebOTX Application Server

Please add sensor support NEC WebOTX Application Server https://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/webotx/index.html
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Monitoring of API Endpoints

Kindly consider implementing monitoring of API endpoints, considering all existing authentication mechanisms in place e.g. Bearer Token. We are getting requests from Business teams to onboard APIs for monitoring which use Bearer Token authenticati...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Support zLinux for Instana distributed OpenTelemetry collector

We want to collect logs with OpenTelemetry collector. Because of the support perspective, we want to use Instana Distribution of Opentelemetry Collector (IDOT) . But our system is running on zLinux (SUSE) and IDOC does not cover zLinux. Could you ...
4 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Under review

AI for future migration/lift/shift.

I am an IBM customer involved in a years long effort to lift and shift out of now unsupported IIB to ACE. Lots of manual stare/compare. Need to apply AI tactically to be able to do first cut of that in next thing past ACE so I dont have to do this...
9 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Mobile Layer DNS break requires just like Web layer request DNs Capture

As we have the mobile app and webapp we wanted to traces the DNS for web and mobile breakups for the mobile app and web app,
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review