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Instana OCP agent/K8 Sensor support for clinet-facing Listeners use of SASL_SSL for IBM Concert Operate Kafka Lag data collection.

Currently instana agent/K8Sensor supports clinet-facing listeners does not support SASL_SSL to pull the consumer group lag data from IBM concert Operate Kafa. We need to add this feature so that we can monitor and view the lag data.
21 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Support for MuleSoft Mule Runtime 4.x Monitoring in IBM Instana

Dear Instana Product and Development Team, Mule 4.x has been the strategic runtime platform recommended by MuleSoft for several years and is now the primary platform for customers modernizing their integration environments. As Mule 3.x is EOL, we ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Host: Ability to configure / turn off host metrics

Hi, During our rollout we found a couple of Linux systems that mount >1400 disks. As each of those creates a couple of metric we ran into the limit: Monitoring issue: max_metrics_reached This left us without important metrics like memory usage ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor

Request support for non-UTF-8 encoding configurations in the HTTPd sensor.

The HTTPd sensor is requesting support for non-UTF-8 encoding configurations. The Instana Agent is unable to handle httpd.conf files configured with non-UTF-8 encoding, so it is repeatedly adding lines to include in the httpd.conf file.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Future consideration

Must-Gather scripts are required for the sensors

The Tiger Team is working with support an others on a tool called Tiger-Optics that is using AI to analyze Must-Gather data from customers to help accelerate problem diagnostics. So far we have done work to process data for the backend. This is pa...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Must-Gather tools required for the Instana Agent

The Tiger Team is working with support an others on a tool called Tiger-Optics that is using AI to analyze Must-Gather data from customers to help accelerate problem diagnostics. So far we have done work to process data for the backend. This is pa...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Future consideration

Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Support Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

I open a case with IBM about not seeing information on instana from my Hyper-V they say that Only SUpports WIndows 2019. So Please add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2025 in the Instana Windows Hyper-V sensor.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Citrix Virtual Desktop Monitoring Support

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 capabili...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release