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Persistent Visibility for Recently Offline Hosts

Summary: When a host goes down in IBM Instana, an alert is generated, and the host is marked as Unmonitored in the Agent view and shown in red on the Infrastructure map. However, after approximately five minutes, the host disappears from both view...
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Make the Extendible Domain editor accessible to Partners

Within our current experience using TargetProcess, at a lot of customers the capabilities of TargetProcess are extended with existing solutions to create new entities & relations according to the customer's needs. However, most of the time, th...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Ensure alerts are reliably delivered even during temporary outages

Hi, At the moment when an event triggers an alert the channel doesn't guarantee delivery of the message or action and it even doesn't log what has happened of if anything happened at all. Therefore we request to improve Instana’s alerting mechanis...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Request to Enable Retrieval and Display of Metrics Equivalent to Navigator for i

For users who integrate IBM i with other systems, relying solely on Navigator for i for IBM i operations is inefficient.Meanwhile, the metrics that can be retrieved via Instana for IBM i are fewer than those available through Navigator for i, whic...
1 day ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Instana ACE Tracing Should Not Modify MQ RFH2 Header or Message ID

Problem statement: Enabling ACE tracing for Instana introduces changes to MQ message structure (e.g., RFH2 header, CCSID, and traceparent field). This behavior breaks message compatibility with existing systems expecting unmodified MQ headers. Enh...
1 day ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Enable real time monitoring (and alerting) of user activity to capture IBM Consulting Advantage (ICA) user's prompt to the LLM and response back.

This will enable real time monitoring of user prompts and responses to check for in appropriate language, PII data used and other related use cases. Automated monitoring and alerting (for ex triggering email to support Distribution Lists and invol...
1 day ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted