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Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Need to get performance data from IBM Storage and Brocade SAN into Instana

we using only IBM Storage e.g. FS9200, FS9500, FS5xxx and Brocade SAN Directors and Switches. We need to get performance data from these devices into Instana and also into AIOPS for ML purpose either from each device directly or e.g. from Storage ...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Storage / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Sensor for TMON is needed (z/OS clients running MQ)

We have several clients using TMON instead of Omegamon. We have several clients that run MQ and error messages are written to TMON. Without the ability to monitor TMON, we lack visibility to other issues when they crop up as a result of service de...
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Plug-In or patch updates in ACE toolkits to enable better viewing such as expand capability of ESQL conditions

- Similar to Java compute node, where one can expand the code at function level; compute node must be equipped with similar capabilities to view the code in a better manner. - Users (developers) must be able to expand and minimize the code at proc...
12 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

About adding available memory

In order to check the operation of the OS, please add the available memory calculated by the following formula. AvailableM=$(awk '/MemFree/{free=$2} /Buffers/{buff=$2} /^Cached/{cached=$2} /MemTotal/{total=$2} END {print ((free+buff+cached)*100)/t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to monitor Db2 instances with DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanism

Per the documentation, the DB2 sensor does not support DB2 instances that use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanisms. The customer that I'm working with is getting ready to switch their database over to use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication. In...
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Last Backup Sensor Option to monitor by hours.

This metric only offer to monitor the number of days since the last full backup was done, this is ok but if there were a possibility to monitor by hours instead, would be a more precise and secure monitoring, because it would allow me to now that ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Not under consideration