Build 276

Adding a threshold to the Big Number widget

You can add a threshold to the Big number widget in a custom dashboard to highlight values that exceed or fall lower than certain levels.

For more information, see Adding a threshold to the Big Number widget.

Azure Load Balancer

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors your Azure Load Balancer. For more information, see Monitoring Azure Load Balancer.

Custom email subject prefix (public preview)

You can now add a custom subject prefix to every email alert notification that is sent. For more information, see Email Alert Channel.

Host sensor: Support for Windows services

The Host sensor now monitors Windows services. For more information, see Windows services list.

InformixDB sensor

The InformixDB sensor (build by using OTEL SDK) is now available. For more information on how to monitor InformixDB and its metrics, see Performance metrics for InformixDB.

Intelligent Remediation

Intelligent Remediation is now available. Instana’s Automation Framework and Action Catalog is enhanced to include Intelligent Remediation: actions that are generated by using watsonx.ai, checked by the Instana team, ready to help diagnose and resolve incidents. Prescriptions of step-by-step instructions are supplemented with script actions and Ansible actions to further diagnose resources and provide remediations.

Actions cover key technology areas, such as Containers, Elasticsearch, Host, JVM, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Users associate these actions with issue and incident types, just like their own manually crafted actions. Over time a shared corpus of knowledge evolves to assist all users of your Instana instance. For more information, see Managing Actions.

Smart Alerts for Service Level Objectives (public preview)

The Service Levels (public preview) dashboard now has a Smart Alerts tab. You can create a Smart Alert to receive notification when a Service Level Indicator (SLI) approaches or breaches a Service Level Objective (SLO). For example, you can configure to receive an alert when an error budget or SLO reaches a percentage threshold, or for a specified length of time. On receiving the notification, you can resolve the issues that can cause the target to be missed. For more information, see Smart Alerts for Service Level Objectives.

Synthetic monitoring RBAC improvements (private preview)

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Synthetic monitoring includes the following enhancements:

• Inheritance from application perspectives if Limited access is set in the group Access configuration
• Ability to associate Synthetic tests and Synthetic credentials with application perspectives

For more details about this enhancement, see RBAC improvements (private preview).

Third-party metrics and events sensors (private preview)

The following sensors are now available to the Instana agent in private preview:

• AppDynamics
• Datadog
• Dynatrace
• Microsoft SCOM
• Nagios
• New Relic
• SolarWinds SAM
• Splunk Observability
• Zabbix

With these sensors, you can import host metric and event data from your third-party monitoring tools into Instana. The additional metric and event data can help you eliminate "blind spots" when you use several tools to monitor your infrastructure.

Website monitoring auto page detection (public preview)

The Website monitoring auto detect page transition feature (public preview) is released in EUM JavaScript agent 1.7.1. With the initial setup of the autoPageDetection API, the agent can automatically detect URL changes and send them as page transition beacons to the Instana backend. For more information, see Website monitoring auto page detection.

Automation policies

Automation policies now support Service Level (public preview) Smart Alerts as an event trigger.

IBM MQ Tracing

With IBM MQ Tracing user exit, you can now specify a customized prefix for the log files.

SAP ABAP sensor

The following improvements are made to the SAP ABAP sensor dashboard:

• The Usage metric that shows the utilization percentage is added to the Disk Data table and the Status metric is added to the ICM Service table.
• The Top Process List can now be filtered based on the users: root and admin.
• The User Information table can now be filtered based on the logon types: GUI, RFC internal, and RFC external.
• The tRFC and qRFC tables are now implemented as metrics. You need to update the Instana agent to get this enhancement.

Synthetic monitoring

In the Synthetic monitoring test result details, the Failures tile includes the ErrorType. In the same tile, Stack trace appears only for the test types with a stack trace.

TIBCO ActiveSpaces monitoring

TIBCO ActiveSpaces monitoring is now available. Grid-level metrics are added to the dashboard of the TIBCO ActiveSpaces data grid. For more information, see Monitoring TIBCO ActiveSpaces.

vSphere

Instana now supports monitoring vSphere 8.0.

IBM ACE sensor

Previously, the Instana UI didn't list the integration server on container-based environment without metrics. This issue is now fixed.

IBM MQ Tracing

Previously, when IBM MQ and ACE were installed on the same server but started with different users, the ACE process was not able to write the user exit logs to the log file that was created by the MQ process. This issue is now fixed.

OpenTelemetry

Previously, the Instana UI did not display the specific technologies that were used for the OpenTelemetry database and messaging calls. This issue is now fixed.

Table widget not displaying metrics

Previously, the table widget did not display values for selected metrics in Analyze Infrastructure and custom dashboards. This issue is now fixed.

Table widget sorting

Previously, in Instana the default sort option of the Table widget was not working as expected. This issue is now fixed.

Wildfly

Previously, Java Tracing was not able to capture the HTTP 401 and 403 errors for JBoss or Wildfly. This issue is now fixed.