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

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

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

Show "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O

Please add the metric "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O containers. I am aware that in the Instana UI, I can view the "Memory Working Set Usage %" metric for Containerd containers:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.310?topi...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor Planned for future release

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor Planned for future release

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor Planned for future release

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

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

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor Planned for future release