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Search results: Sensor

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Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
7 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 5 Future consideration

Instana Agent sensor to connect to the Openshift Monitoring Alert Manager, get the alarms and send them to Instana UI

Dear IBM, Right now in our Openshift clusters we have alarms generated by PrometheusRules and stored in the Alert Manager of the namespace openshift-monitoring. Those alarms only have visibility at the Openshift level and we would like to have the...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Delivered

Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Openshift GPU Monitoring

In instana APM tool there is no information about gpus working on redhat openshift. It will be very useful to monitor gpu metrics, info and utilization data for openshift clusters connected to instana.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support Prometheus Metrics on Openshift through Openshift Annotations

The option to use OC annotations to collect Prometheus Metrics is not supported by Instana (yet)?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 0 Future consideration

High Availability (HA) for Instana AWS Agent (Cloud Watch Kinesis Stream)

Introduction:-------------We want to make heavy use of the AWS Instana Agent on various AWS Accounts 50+. The Teams want to see and use the AWS Metric Data in Instana for Alerting and Analysis.Therefore we plan to set up an Instana AWS Agent. We l...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1

Nginx Metric Collection

The customer wants to enable metric collection for their Nginx-based application. These applications are containerized and running on OpenShift. We totally understand that we should change nginx.conf file in order to enable metrics collection (htt...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Not under consideration