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Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
10 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 5 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration