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Expected Middleware instance status derived from configuration

A host may contain one or more application servers (WebSphere, Liberty, Tomcat, JBoss), and all configured instances for each of them are expected to be running. Instana only creates entities when it detects them running and does not inspect middl...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana OCP agent/K8 Sensor support for clinet-facing Listeners use of SASL_SSL for IBM Concert Operate Kafka Lag data collection.

Currently instana agent/K8Sensor supports clinet-facing listeners does not support SASL_SSL to pull the consumer group lag data from IBM concert Operate Kafa. We need to add this feature so that we can monitor and view the lag data.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Functionality already exists

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor Planned for future release