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Citrix Virtual Desktop Monitoring Support

Hi, As we are migrating from Dynatrace to Instana, we require monitoring coverage for Citrix Virtual Desktop infrastructure. Currently, Instana does not provide any monitoring capabilities for Citrix environments. The following Citrix monitoring c...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Enhanced Oracle Database Monitoring Metrics

Hi, As a customer migrating to Instana, we require comprehensive monitoring coverage for Oracle Database. While Instana provides some Oracle monitoring capabilities, critical metrics are missing and must be delivered to enable complete database ob...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Include Microsoft SQL Server sensor the ability to collect Job Details History

The ability for the Windows OS agent and the MS SQL Server sensor to collect job detail data from SQL.
11 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Certificate expiration monitoring

Dear colleagues, today many applications communicate in a secured channel, Instana has synthetic monitoring option that allows to monitor external websites, it covers internal communications partially, some self-signed certificates used to encrypt...
14 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Singularity (now Apptainer) Monitoring

While giving a Demo to St.Jude as a prospective customer they asked us about Instana and Container monitoring , specifically on a container software called Apptainer (formerly Singularity) which they are required to use. this was asked byt the HPC...
25 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

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 Under review

GCP cloud service agent being able to collect managed service tag\label information

Currently in GCP when using a cloud service agent to monitor managed services, the respective managed service tags\labels cannot be collected and sent to the instana backend with the corresponding managed service. This makes grouping services usin...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor

Enhance Host Process monitoring

We have identified several gaps in process monitoring capabilities when comparing IBM Instana with IBM Tivoli Monitoring. We would like to submit the following enhancement requests: Currently, process monitoring must be explicitly defined in the c...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Create a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM SevOne and associated SevOne platform components

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM SevOne that provides native monitoring for the broader SevOne platform, including SevOne NMS core services , SevOne Data Insight , and, where deployed alongside SevOne, related reporting...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Please build a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift.

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift. At present, we use Instana K8Sensor together with the Instana agent to monitor OpenShift and workloads running on it, includi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review