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Search results: Sensor

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...
2 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...
2 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.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Support for Apache Ozone

Customer needs support for monitoring Apache Ozone, a distributed object store which is also included in the Cloudera Platform.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Support for NetMQ

Customer is using NetMQ and would like insight into this technology. NetMQ is a 100% native C# port of the lightweight messaging library ZeroMQ. https://github.com/zeromq/netmq
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Support for IBM Event Streams 12.1.x

At the official Instana documentation for Monitoring Kafka, the latest version supported for IBM Event Streams is 11.6 and the current version is 12.1.0, I have tested this latest version running on OCP and it works, can you perform a validation? ...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

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

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

Allow custom events be created for IBM MQ MFT Agent status

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Agent Status is not available as a metric to create a custom event. Out of the box events can't be adjusted per customers requriement. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Agent status when they are in...
9 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor Future consideration

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