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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...
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

GCP cloud service agent being able to collect managed service tag\label information

Currently in GCP when using a cloud service agent to monitor managed services, the respective managed service tags\labels cannot be collected and sent to the instana backend with the corresponding managed service. This makes grouping services usin...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Enhance Host Process monitoring

We have identified several gaps in process monitoring capabilities when comparing IBM Instana with IBM Tivoli Monitoring. We would like to submit the following enhancement requests: Currently, process monitoring must be explicitly defined in the c...
12 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

There is no support or integration available for monitoring IBM HMC V11 within Instana.

A growing number of customers are migrating to IBM Power Systems with HMC Power 11 and require full monitoring capabilities within Instana as part of our Managed Services Platform (MSP). However, the current lack of support and integration for HMC...
14 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

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...
20 days 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...
20 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Sensor support for opensearch application

I am working with potential customer verizon. customer's application team is looking to monitor opensearch application which is not supported by Instana officially. They are keen to monitor this and we have suggested to try elastic search sensor w...
20 days 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).
about 2 months 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).
about 2 months 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 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review