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Instana

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Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Automated report from instana dashboards

We are trying to send an automated report from instana custom dashboard via email, but we don't see any options available in UI also don't see anything in the instana documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability Please help wit...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

To apply a common filter to all the charts in a instana dashboard

We don't have an option to apply a common filter to all the charts in a dashboard - this will be useful for adding a common filter like cluster name to all charts and reduce manual efforts
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Multiple tabs for a custom dashboard

At present we don't have option to add multiple tabs in a single instana's custom dashboard, it will be hard to monitor by adding more number of charts within a same dashboard
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Redis db integration issues with instana

NatWest are trying to enable in-depth metric monitoring for the redis instances we are using from IBM by referring to this document, we observed the challenge "Monitoring of Redis Sentinel and Redis with TLS/SSL enabled is not supported." as our r...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
about 23 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
4 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one: ht...
4 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted