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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.
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for Python in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Python, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
17 days ago in Instana / Python / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
17 days ago in Instana / PHP / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for PostgreSQL in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PostgreSQL.
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

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.
17 days ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release