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Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Allow Unsecured HTTP for Ansible Blocks in Ansible Integration

At this time, it seems the Integration for Ansible (Specifically Ansible Tower Block) ensures that the URI going through uses secure HTTPS. The authenticate.js and request.js use a const uri that prefixes HTTPS to the URI. Ansible AWS can however ...
about 21 hours ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Global variables for workflows

Introduce global-level variables that can be defined once and used across all workflows. These variables would store values such as notification email addresses, API keys, or shared configuration data, eliminating repetitive setup and reducing mai...
about 22 hours ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Add Connect:Direct API

Canada's 2nd largest food distributor, Sobeys, is interested in pursing a PoC around Sterling SFG certificates and Connect:Direct certificates. API documentation can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/connect-direct/6.4.0?topic=connectdire...
6 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
3 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration