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Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

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