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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).
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Feature Request: Support for Legacy/Alternative MariaDB Authentication Methods in Sensor

We are requesting a feature update or backward compatibility support regarding the MariaDB Sensor. Following recent internal changes to the sensor code, our current environment is encountering errors which are logged every minute in the Instana ag...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Support for Apache Hadoop HDFS

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which is also included in the Cloudera platform.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Support for downstream call visibility for applications using both KafkaBatchListener (batch processing) and standard Kafka listeners (single record processing)

When com.instana.kafka.correlate.send.receive flag is set to true, downstream calls may not be captured for implementations using KafkaBatchListener. We need simultaneous visibility into our application which uses both methods (KafkaBatchListener ...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Under review

Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Need to support HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration

Dear Team, at the moment Instana agent is not able to recognise HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration and it looks like the agent sees the container and JVM inside it, but doesn't collect metrics from Cassandra instance. this make a gap between cas...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review