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Build Synthetic Images with arm compability

Have it possible to run backend on arm instances
5 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

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
10 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Make results for service not in use in selected timerframe visible in analytic/API

We noted that the Applications dashboard in Instana displays the metrics (calls, latency, etc.) for each service, including those with no calls, regardless of the time window. However, when querying services in Analytics in Instana, services that ...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Under review

Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
5 months ago in Instana 0 Under review

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
11 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Under review