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On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Allow Token or userid password from IBM MQ to Instana agent

IBM MQ introduced telemtry as per doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.4?topic=operator-integrating-mq-instana-tracing It doe snot provide secure conection and authentication option when configuring on-prem or non ibm otel providers. Also, t...
8 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Improve the usability of the search textbox

improve the usability of the search text box.1. its position is confusing (where is search box!?)2. the filter selection select box is mistaken for the search text box.3. I have to press the magnifying glass icon to search (I want to input search ...
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

EUM Crash Reporting - Limit or disable sending crash report

We have currently roughly 10 M app user and want to use crash reporting funtionality.In this cause we are looking for a way to limit or deact end-user to send crash reporting e.g. by config, to limit overload of network and protect instana backend...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 4 Not under consideration

In the application traces(Analytics->calls in the UI) the query execution time from a DB2 is not getting represented correctly, for example when a query is waiting for a lock this time is not getting reported under query time instead it is getting reported under JVM time.

it was observed that the entire time(execution+lock) was distributed between the query execution and result fetch, so we need an implementation where we can see the query time and a child span for resultset showing the time taken in locking if any...
9 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
about 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

switch the data in custom dashboards by a specific value (e.g. Namespace)

We are using Instana to monitor our environment where systems are deployed per Namespace on OpenShift.We have a custom dashboard with the same content that summarizes the time series and scores for each Namespace.If we had the ability to switch da...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Planned for future release