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Allow calendars to use specified times along with dates.

We have Extended outage on specific dates though out the year. starting at 11:00 PM on Saturday and ending at 05:30 AM Sunday. Our extended outage calendar works but no jobs run for the whole day Saturday and Sunday. It would be great to have this...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Instana Support for z/VSE Operating System

This is a request for IBM to support running Instana the mainframe z/VSE operating system similar to the way it is currently supported on z/OS operating system (with Instana Gateway, CDP Streaming, spans, etc.). It would be useful to the many IBM ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improve performance login on IWS for z/OS

In order to allow to understand in detail the load induced by PIF jobs on the TWS consumption, we wish to be able to have an option to activate a detailed log of the CPU cost of each PIF. In addition, in order to quantify the quality of TSO users'...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state

Need to monitor IIB(IBM Integration Bus) Message flow event details in Instana with payload in decoded state Instana Zendesk Ticket support for more details - Request #32621
over 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Host-Agnostic Custom Events on StatsD Metrics

Having Application-specific StatsD metrics sent to Instana is helpful when creating custom dashboards, where we can monitor the change in metrics regardless of which host is sending them. However the custom events are tied to a specific host which...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Provide trace duration in API response

Current API trace endpoint https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTrace does not return the overall duration of the given trace. The Instana UI however does show the overall duration of each trace. Would love to see that attribute also be...
over 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

full feature monitoring for real time MSK

There are differences between monitoring of self hosted kafka and AWS MSK. The MSK metrics are available in AWS but not in Instana and I woudl propse to show the PER TOPIC metrics from MSK in Instana they way we do for self hosted Kafka.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Analytics with large time span reduce available most recent traces

We found that the result set of traces is dependent on the time window used. Example if you use window of last 5 minutes you will get most recent traces , but if you set the a window of 7 days you won't see most recent traces and latest traces bei...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Use Agent based App Java Profiling based on Environment Variable value

Introduction The Instana Agent offers the feature of Profiling Java Applications to find Performance Issues inside the service execution and gives a good output/hin on the code/method level. This can only be set inside the agent config globally fo...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Job Schedule - To Enhance the Run cycle Preview

Hi Team, This request is to enhance the feature of job preview option inside the job stream. When we see the job view (tool tip )from inside the job stream it will display the job name alone according to the cursor movement.instead we are looking ...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration