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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).
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Citrix Virtual Desktop Monitoring Support

We are migrating from Dynatrace to Instana, we require monitoring coverage for Citrix Virtual Desktop infrastructure. Currently, Instana does not provide any monitoring capabilities for Citrix environments. The following Citrix monitoring capabili...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Enhanced Oracle Database Monitoring Metrics

Hi, As a customer migrating to Instana, we require comprehensive monitoring coverage for Oracle Database. While Instana provides some Oracle monitoring capabilities, critical metrics are missing and must be delivered to enable complete database ob...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Please build a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift.

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift. At present, we use Instana K8Sensor together with the Instana agent to monitor OpenShift and workloads running on it, includi...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Monitor Cloud service agent CSP constraints

Regarding the use of a cloud service agent to monitor CSP managed services, there are optimal configuration options to consider regarding Host size, JVM max heap memory allocation, SPN count, number of services being monitored etc. There is curren...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor Under review

Create a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM SevOne and associated SevOne platform components

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM SevOne that provides native monitoring for the broader SevOne platform, including SevOne NMS core services , SevOne Data Insight , and, where deployed alongside SevOne, related reporting...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review