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Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Delivered

Enhance Instana Standard Edition to make airgapped package more available

Affected: All airgapped customers, like goverent sector, military and public sector who usually run Instana in Airgapped environment would intereted to use Instana Standard Edition and prefer the airgapped can be easily available more easily Descr...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered
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Instana php sensor php8.1 support

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The latest PHP version (8.1) of the Instana PHP sensor is not supported now (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php says versions supported - 5.3-8.0), but It's been 7 months since php8.1 releas...
over 3 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Delivered

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 1 Delivered

re-occurring maintenance window

It appears the only way to set maintenance windows (to suppress alerts) is to setup a maintenance window but it only allows specific dates and times. Our maintenance windows are set by day of week and time (regardless of specific date). For exampl...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered