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Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

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

Host: Ability to configure / turn off host metrics

Hi, During our rollout we found a couple of Linux systems that mount >1400 disks. As each of those creates a couple of metric we ran into the limit: Monitoring issue: max_metrics_reached This left us without important metrics like memory usage ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

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).
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

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).
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Include Microsoft SQL Server sensor the ability to collect Job Details History

The ability for the Windows OS agent and the MS SQL Server sensor to collect job detail data from SQL.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release