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Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Request for sensor for discovering MQ-applications (on IBM MQ-appliances)

We use the MQ-sensor for discovering MQ on midrange platform (AIX, Linux, Windows) in our organization.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Link FTE Reduction on Labor Tab to Reductions on Labor Activity Tab for Individuals

If a person's time or FTE count reduces on the labor tab, from 1 to .5 fte as an example, customer wants the labor activity tab to "automatically" reduce the current forecast
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Auto-Logout

It would be helpful if we could set an auto-logout after a specific amount of time.   Example: After a user has been logged in for 12 hours, force a logout so the user has to re-authenticate.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Not under consideration

Built-in Event on docker container - CPU Usage

Hi team, Currently, on the docker container entity type, there is only one built in event (on the memory) : https://instana.io/s/oAKdnEMqQtuTNHKaq1JBAw We would like to know if it's planned to have a built in event also on the CPU usage which woul...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Requesting visibility of NICs under windows teaming

When viewing Windows server with NIC teaming, sometimes it is necessary to know what ports and NIC cards are represented by the single logical connection.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under consideration

To have a easy way to know which targets in scope were unreachable during the discovery

In our environment we usually run discoveries on big scopes. It could happen that some targets included in the scope were unreachable through ping. We are looking for a simple way to have a list of scoped targets, for each of them having the simpl...
almost 9 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration