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Add support for Redis setup in cluster mode

Add s upport for clustering in Redis in Instana collectors
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 2 Delivered

Mass "insufficient authority" errors in a log for SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE

Dear Colleagues, due to security policies the customer is not able to grant access to the special queue. Hence they experience the following error in a log: Error: 2025-05-20T07:10:58.879Z AMQ8077W: Entity 'mqumon01' has insufficient authority to ...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Delivered

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Need the ability to monitor IBM MQ Alias Queues

The customer uses Alias Queues for the IBM MQ applications. Within Instana, Alias Queues are not monitored. So, the customer has no visibility into what's happening within their applications. For example, when they look at the Traces going through...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Delivered

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Support for RDQM DR scenario

Dear Colleagues, following the documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#replicated-data-queue-manager-rdqm-support we support RDQM HA scenario only, but we have an engagement with lar...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 2 Delivered

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered