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Instana

Enable Memory Profiling for .NET Applications

Instana currently provides .NET CPU profiling, but memory-related issues are often equally important when troubleshooting application performance. Adding memory profiling for .NET would help identify memory leaks, excessive allocations, object ret...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / .NET Submitted

SNC is added as a SAP ABAP connector.

Due to security requirements, remote monitoring of SAP instances must be adjusted from JCo to SNC.
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Enable migration for existing customers of Instana (on-prem or SaaS) from standalone Instana to Concert Core Observability (as part of Concert platform)

As we released IBM Concert platform, we are getting requests and interests from existing Instana customers to transition to Concert platform and move their existing Instana deployments into Concert platform (which now includes Concert Core Observa...
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

Enable changing the application name in the JDBC connection.

Ability to modify the application name in the JDBC connection within the DB2 agent configuration.The agent establishes a JDBC connection to DB2 using the default application name "DB2JCCAPLICATION"; however, the client wishes to identify each conn...
1 day ago in Instana / DB2 Submitted

Metrics not available for Customer Alerts

Built in Events can't be modified and not all metrics available for custom alert configuration. This is a blocker for enterprise wide threshold governance.
1 day ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Log SmartAlert Grouping limitation

Currently the log alert grouping is limited to a single dimension. GlobleLife is advanced used and require multi-dimentionsl grouping using Application, environment, host, error type, database, and support team. This will allow them to send the al...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Instana Dashboard flexibility

Not all metrics available in all dashboard widgets. Dashboard customization is restricted and cannot fully combine business, application, infrastructure and log data in one view. This is critical for the executives to view all in one place.
1 day ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Support for FileStatsReceiver under IDOT collector for Windows

The file system can become burdened with high file usage when there are many stale files or missing files. The FileStatsReceiver helps identify stale or missing files in the system.
1 day ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry Submitted

Support for WindowsPerfCountersReceiver

GlobeLife has extensive Windows systems in their environment. IBM provided IDOT Collector for Window platform. Current IDOT doesn't seem to support WindowsPerfCountersReceives. To get a deeper understanding of the windows platform, this will be es...
1 day ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry Submitted

RabbitMQ and Redis span filtering on .net core 9 and above

Hello, Some of our clients want to reduce the data ingestion so they want to filter some span not to post. Especially redis and rabbitmq spans. They use .net 9 running on kubernetes. We need a developping for the filters.
2 days ago in Instana / .NET Submitted