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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.
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Smart Root Cause Detection for "Agent Not Reporting" Events

## Executive Summary (Elevator Pitch) The current "Instana Agent not reporting" event doesn't differentiate between network issues, host failures, or agent process problems. During network incidents, this creates alert storms with hundreds of iden...
7 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.
21 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

MS SQL metrics: Page Life Expectancy and blocked process

Hello, Instana agent don't collect these metrics related to MS SQL: Page Life Expectancy (Buffer: memory pression) and blocked process metrics. Regards
19 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Disponibilidad_Servidores

Es importante poder ver la disponibilidad de un servidor (cuanto tiempo estuvo en linea, cuanto tiempo estuvo fuera de línea por apagado o reinicio) y que estos puedan mostrarse de forma vertical todos los servidores donde se instalo el agente ins...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 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...
8 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Support availability zone and z/OS system filtering for CICS and Db2z calls in Application Perspectives

Currently, when monitoring z/OS environments in Instana, the availability zone and z/OS system name are visible in the Infrastructure view for CICS and Db2z hosts. However, these attributes are not propagated to the call/trace level, which means t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Planned for future release

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor Future consideration

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