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Infrastructure

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
26 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Allow custom zone names for cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and Azure sensor in the Infrastructure Map

Cloud services discovered by the AWS agent and the Azure sensor are grouped in the Infrastructure Map by region/location (e.g. us-east-1a, eastus2), and there is no way to rename these zones or assign a custom one. For hosts with an agent this is ...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Multi-Filesystem alerts

We need to monitor multiple filesystems on a host using a single rule, while allowing a different threshold for each filesystem. Today, when creating an alert covering multiple filesystems, the webhook payload does not clearly identify: Which fil...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Alert closure when an entity comes back Online

When a monitored entity goes offline (a failed process, JVM, application server, or any other monitored entity), Instana generates an alert. However, when the entity comes back online, a resolution event is never received. Instana considers the re...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Needs more information

Infrastructure linking for MaxScale proxy mariadb

The proxy (MaxScale) operates between the application and the MariaDB instances, preventing Instana from correlating database spans with infrastructure entities. Thus, a MaxScale tracer/integration is necessary to facilitate the correlation with M...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure Under review

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.
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Future consideration

Additional Filtering Options on Endpoint /api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/{plugin}

We would like to have additional filtering options for use when retrieving results for specific Infrastructure custom metrics (e.g. Micrometer metrics to be found with Analyze/Infrastructure/JVM in the UI). At present, running a REST API request t...
4 months ago in Instana / API-C / 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.
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Planned for future release

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

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