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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

Change the CIT Scanner installation path of the Agent on Windows machines

My customer has correctly installed an Agent 9.5.0.7 on a Windows 2016/2019 machine. After receiving error notifications for unavailable resource, they realized that the Scanner installed for the Agent had been deleted. Deepening the problem they ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

add support to run DA agents using Group Managed Service Accounts in Windows

At the moment it's possible to specify AD account, by specifying -uname and -domain parameters during twsinst execution. We would like to request the ability to use Group Managed Service Account as well - twsinst would need to allow us to not prov...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Environment variable to indicate if a job is a RERUN

It would be very useful if when a job runs, there was an environment variable that indicated whether the job is a RERUN or not. Maybe, set a UNISON_RERUN to 0 on the initial run and then increment it for each successive RERUN of the job instance. ...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 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

Audit Log Files JSON Format

After the IWA upgrade from 9.5.3 to 10.2.2, DB logs were showing the JSON format. We tried upgrading to 10.2.5 as well. We are doing audits on a weekly basis, and as part of this process, we retrieve the database logs from the path mentioned below...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 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

AWS lambda action plug-in

Allow Workload Automation to trigger an AWS Lambda action as a result of an event - rather than AWS Lambda type job, which is currently available in the product.
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

email events

There is a sendemail job type available, but we would like to request an email event - allowing us to monitor an inbox and perform an action when an email from specific sender or with specific subject arrives. This functionality already exists in ...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Under review