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Support for NGINX in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for NGINX, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Delivered

Configure custom management port for RabbitMQ sensor

During a POC with a customer to observe Cloud pak for Data, found that the Rabbit MQ sensor doesn't allow anything other than default of 15672 as management port. Should allow custom port so that the products which use custom port can show more value
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Springboot-Sensor: Datastore connections to be monitored

Hello, the "jboss as"-sensor collects information about connections to datastores and provides it on the related dashboard (see example on attached screenshot).We need the same for springboot, therefore please add the capability to springboot-sens...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Support for vSphere 8

Hi team, We found out that Instana supports vSphere until version 7 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-monitoring-vsphere#supported-versions Please support version 8. Thank you
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

TuxedoApp Application Dashboard - Update View

Under the prebuilt TuxedoApp Application dashboard view, we should add another column under the Tuxedo Service List section that shows the Tuxedo Server name that the Tuxedo Service is part of. Reference the attached screenshot named screen1.jpg ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Oracle Tuxedo Domain Dashboard - Update what the 'Messages' Reflects

Under the prebuilt Oracle Tuxedo Domain dashboard that shows Machines, click the link to get to a dashboard view of that machine. On this dashboard page, there is a Queues section. Today, there is a column that shows 'Messages' in the table that r...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 2 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered