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Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
5 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for STIBO metrics

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 ...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add Kinesis Firehose Cloudwatch Metric to AWS Sensor

Hi all, Currently, only Kinesis Data streams but not Kinesis Data Firehose streams are supported by the AWS sensor. Since our platform is also using Kinesis Data Firehose streams, an integration is much appreciated. Thanks in advance and kind rega...
9 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Provide information from textbase MBeans and nested MBeans within Instana.

For the client (Continental) it is very important to see information from textbase MBeans as well as nested MBeans within Instana to determine RC’s. But Instana is not capable to do so because nested Mbeans and textbase MBeans are not recognized b...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Set up monitoring for DB2 threads for Guardian Prod servers in Instana

It is useful for customer to access the real time active DB2 thread counts. It is beneficial for Guardian customer to monitor the ongoing situation of DB2 thread count of cloud activities whether they are heavily consumed or moderate, which helps ...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud / Sensor 0 Planned for future release