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Instana Agent sensor to connect to the Openshift Monitoring Alert Manager, get the alarms and send them to Instana UI

Dear IBM, Right now in our Openshift clusters we have alarms generated by PrometheusRules and stored in the Alert Manager of the namespace openshift-monitoring. Those alarms only have visibility at the Openshift level and we would like to have the...
14 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Make Instana redis sensor support DragonflyDB, the Redis-compatible alternative

Many customers run DragonflyDB (a Redis-compatible alternative, instead of the standard Redis.) to host their applications, which claims provide better performance, more memory efficient, simpler operations, and dramatically lower cost. Since Drag...
14 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

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...
22 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Submitted

Enable custom arguments (e.g. -C) for ud32 and allow running Tuxedo sensor scripts as application user

The current Tuxedo sensor implementation does not support passing custom arguments to ud32 (such as -C <client>), nor does it allow executing shell scripts (e.g. tuxedoShell.sh) as a specific OS-level application user. This causes problems i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Monitoring Postilion with Instana

Using an Instana tool to monitor and do tracing on Postilion is useful for Capitec bank because it helps ensure that payment services—such as ATM, POS, and online transactions—run smoothly, quickly, and reliably. It gives real-time visibility into...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted