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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...
8 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

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

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...
28 days ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add a javascript evaluator on the function node (jsfiddle like)

Hi, During the integration, when we have to manipulate the data or make some calculation using the "function" node, we have to use an extra tool like https://jsfiddle.net/ to test our javascript code in an interactive way. Regards,
7 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Add sensor support for NEC WebOTX Application Server

Please add sensor support NEC WebOTX Application Server https://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/webotx/index.html
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Uninstallation instructions in the main documentation.

At present, the instructions provided at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x do not provide uninstallation instructions. While maybe not the most critical of things, it might help to include some uninstallation steps to remove an ...
8 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

RIA: Allow forward compatibility with Backups.

At the moment, creating a backup of RIA via the toolbox addon is supported only for use on that version, e.g. a backup of v1.1.4 is only available for v1.1.4. This idea would enable official support for a backup to a later version, perhaps with a ...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review