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Request support for non-UTF-8 encoding configurations in the HTTPd sensor.

The HTTPd sensor is requesting support for non-UTF-8 encoding configurations. The Instana Agent is unable to handle httpd.conf files configured with non-UTF-8 encoding, so it is repeatedly adding lines to include in the httpd.conf file.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Must-Gather tools required for the Instana Agent

The Tiger Team is working with support an others on a tool called Tiger-Optics that is using AI to analyze Must-Gather data from customers to help accelerate problem diagnostics. So far we have done work to process data for the backend. This is pa...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Future consideration

Singularity (now Apptainer) Monitoring

While giving a Demo to St.Jude as a prospective customer they asked us about Instana and Container monitoring , specifically on a container software called Apptainer (formerly Singularity) which they are required to use. this was asked byt the HPC...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

GCP: Monitor Cloud service agent CSP constraints

Regarding the use of a cloud service agent to monitor CSP managed services, there are optimal configuration options to consider regarding Host size, JVM max heap memory allocation, SPN count, number of services being monitored etc. There is curren...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Want the ability to monitor Google Cloud directly from the SaaS backend

The customer wants our cloud monitoring to execute from the instana SaaS backend rather than running a sensor on a VM. The customer has many different organizations and accounts within the cloud. This means that multiple VMs need to be deployed in...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Alternative approach to monitor Solr without enabling Remote JMX

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } For Apache Solr monitoring, it appears that Remote JMX is required. However, since Remote JMX is not recommended due to I...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Support for Apache Kudu

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Kudu, which is also included in the Cloudera platform.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

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