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Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Future consideration

Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Crash analytics can be implemented using Flutter

I run a PoC in a client's environment using Instana SaaS tenant. Out of several scenarios there is this crash analytics. As the applications built using Flutter framework for dart programming language, their developer expects that Instana crash an...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Undo or CTRL+Z Button

We are having a recurring question in our client about the possibility of having some sort of UNDO function. Sometimes they introduce a value in the wrong cell, overwriting the one present in the cell. When they find out the mistake, they have no...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add device move endpoint to REST APIv3

Adding a REST API endpoint would enable us to re-balance the devices across peers automatically. Sometimes, new objects are discovered pushing peers close to the object limit per peer same goes for the number of indicators per second. A script cou...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration