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Automatically discover, list, and monitor all operating system processes running on a host

Background and current limitation Please enhance IBM Instana so that it automatically discovers all operating system processes running on a host and provides a complete process list with key resource metrics, without requiring administrators to ma...
15 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Native Instance, Version, Status and Uptime Keywords per Sensor

## Problem statement Key instance metadata — **name**, **version**, **status** and **uptime** — is available in Instana only as a snapshot on each individual sensor page. None of these fields are exposed as Dynamic Focus keywords, which means they...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

DB2 Dynamic Focus Keywords (similar to existing IBM MQ keywords)

## Problem statement The Instana DB2 sensor currently exposes only one Dynamic Focus keyword: | Keyword | Data type | Description | |------------------|-----------|--------------------| | entity.db2.name | string | DB2 database name | This makes i...
13 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Disk Alerts as single used percentage metric

Each Host will have different mounts. We can create metric in smart alert choosing each mount as this changes dynamically in server any time. This is completed based on each server setup. Instead we should have single entity as disk used percentag...
14 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Improve health propagation from child entities

We would like to request an enhancement regarding health propagation and visual health representation between monitored entities and their parent hosts in Instana.
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Customer wants to have agents communicate with SaaS backend via a Gateway

Communication via proxy is not easily manageable: security people need to change security settings of firewall for every agent intalled.
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Under review

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor Future consideration

Integrate AWS Service Health Data into Instana

When the inciden happens, our client understand that is a regional incident or just specific node in their environment. So ingest the data from the Amazon Service Health and show it related component in the instana. https://health.aws.amazon.com/h...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Planned for future release

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Allow limited access to Infrastrucure Smart Alerts

Currently only users with unit wide scope access on Infrastructure are allowed to access Infra Smart Alerts, but we'd like to delegate alert configuration to the teams responsible for their limited area only. This means Infra alerts currently have...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

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