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Monitoring Weblogic - v14c not supported regarding IBM Instana documentation

Hi. Our big customer using Instana and core application on Weblogic. Recently they upgraded Weblogic ftom 12 > 14 but REGARDING Instana official documentation this is not supported: Currently supported versions are: 10gR3, 11gR1, 12cR1 and 12cR...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 4 Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 11 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

Support for Instana agent in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) & Azure ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift)

Two major customers wants to monitor CP4I components (API Connect, MQ, ACE, etc.) with Instana, which is supported.CP4I is installed on managed OpenShift in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and Azure ARO ((Azure Red Hat OpenShift).The I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

add aws rds EBSIO% metric into Instana

If you add aws rds EBSIO% metric we can create an alert it
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

To be able to monitor AlmaLinux

Currently AlmaLinux was not supported by Instana. Currently, the number of customers using AlmaLinux is increasing as it is the successor to centOS. So, it will be greate if Instana could monitor AlmaLinux.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Delivered