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Monitor MySQL v8.4 DB

To monitor MySQL v8.4 Database and collect detailed metrics, we need to configure the Instana Agent with defined credentials as referenced in this is part of configuration document. With that in mind, we see the message: "Client does not support a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 6 Planned for future release

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
11 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release