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Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
2 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Add end user facing documentation in v3 API IBM developer pages

With SOAP being deprecated already from the ongoing supported API access and the desire to retire API v2, we need to ensure end users/customers are able to efficiently use the v3 API and complete documentation is the key to this succeeding. Withou...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Get uptime report from Applications on Instana

We have configured Instana to monitor our applications and we would like to report on performance of the application i.e. CPU utilization memory, Disk IO and the overal uptime for the application, how can we get such a report from Instana or the A...
10 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Add a feature to allow report users to customize the reporting range themselves rather than having to request a different view of the same report.

I was approached today by the Vendor Management team to see if it would be possible to pull the last 12 (Individual) Months of data for 4 specific vendors. The current report shows the current FY's data so they would have had to download this year...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Functionality already exists

Filtering Snowflake smart alerts by database username or account

We are trying to create smart alerts to get alerts when queries are taking longer than a specific threshold. While creating the alert we are trying to filter by only specific snowflake usernames/account.
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 2 Functionality already exists