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Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

Tibco EMS Monitoring: Change number of queues / topic

When monitoring Tibco EMS the maximum number of queues or topics which can be monitored are limited to 200. This should be changed to any value the customer might want to choose knowing the possible impact that might have.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

MSSQL Polling rate

Currently, the ability to control or set the polling rate in database sensors are available in DB2 and Oracle, but not MSSQL. The DB performance is impacted by having an aggressive polling rate, and we'd like to adjust it. This is causing high res...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered