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Enable Non-Team Members to Manage Team Rosters in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: In TargetProcess, only users who are members of a team and have the appropriate permissions can manage that team’s roster. This restriction poses a challenge for roles such as Release Train Engineers (RTEs), who are responsible...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 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 ...
5 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

Cancel a running data validation report

When a data validation report is executed, there is no option to either pause or cancel it. There have been times when a validation querying large set of data was kicked off unintentionally, and it takes more than 24 hours to complete. We are aski...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 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...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 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

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

Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered