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Instana

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Request for New Feature in IBM Instana - Monitoring and Alerting of IBMi Job Status

I would like to propose a new feature for IBM Instana that would significantly enhance its monitoring capabilities for IBMi systems. Currently, there is no direct mechanism to monitor and alert based on the status of jobs running on IBMi environme...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

API - missing link between service and process

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve the whole application stack (AP > service > process > host) through the Instana API. Currently I'm using the following API requests: {{baseURL}}/api/application-monitoring/applications?nameFilter=xxx {{baseURL}}...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Send application monitoring events via kafka topic to Instana

data ingestion/consumption to Instana from Kafka Producers.Use case is that application like ibm biz hub is producing and propagating monitoring data via kafka topic and Instana could be used for monitoring via kafka topic and also existing agent ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Future consideration

Support for getting Logs through API

In Instana we are able to get all data from the API but the logs. We need to expose an API to extract logs. This would also help to extend retention of logs outside Instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Functionality already exists

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release