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API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
11 days ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
3 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Under review

'order-by' functionality for the traces api

We are in need of 'order-by' functionality for the traces(/api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces) api. We have executed the following request with this body as a post request to /api/application-monitoring/analyze/traces . But we haven't recei...
3 months ago in Instana / API-C 0 Submitted

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

get license information from API

in order to be able to manage licenses, it would be great to have the possibility to query the license usage and license "valid to" dates from the API instead of manually gathering them from the UI.
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Instana API: Inclusion of Synthetic Trace Calls in Instana API Query for Analyze Trace

Dear IBM Instana Team, Our team frequently utilizes the Instana API to retrieve in-depth alarming details by closely scrutinizing trace details. This has significantly aided our performance analysis and error identification efforts. However, we ha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Application perspectives 1 Planned for future release

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Able to query IBM MQ Tags from the API

I'm able to query IBM MQ calls using the V2 API for traces: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#operation/getTraceDownload And I get details about the message but not from the IBM MQ Tags. The only way I can get those tags is using the UI and click...
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 2 Planned for future release

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration