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There is a need for an Informix sensor

Starting to get more and more requests for monitoring of Informix.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Sensor for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster 8.9.x

Need sensor tosupport for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster version 8.9.x
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Enable support for TibcoBW, TibcoActiveSpace, AzureServiceBus, STIBO & IBMCDC

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
4 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Update Tuxedo prebuilt dashboard regarding default sort

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues grid view, the default sort order is by queue ID. The default should be by # messages (second column) in desc order. Of course the workaround is every time going to the page to change the ...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana - Update Prebuilt Dashboard for Tuxedo sensor

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues dashboard, we see commas for the Sender PID and Receiver PID columns. However, for the Servers grid on that same page, the PID column doesn't have any commas:1) Please remove the commas fr...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release