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Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
10 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add 'Job Name' to MFT metrics

File transfers are tracked using their 'Transfer ID' in Instana, but this transfer ID is a random string. Our customer creates file transfers with a specific job name, and he needs the transfers to be identified in Instana using their job name. So...
30 days ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Collect Kernel Metrics for Rhel 8+

The customer requires the ability to understand the kernel's usage of CPU per core and Memory. This information directly contributes to their ability to maintain a proactive posture with regard to their infrastructure. Customer wants to see user a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Podman support on zLinux

Currently, the Podman beta is supported only on x86 Linux. St.of CA has a very large zLinux infra base ->> we need Podman support for zLinux
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration