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Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required.

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required. This is causing delay in detection of message wait, subsystem and other alerts which depends on Instana backend console re...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
over 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Monitoring WAS in AS400/Iseries

I currently have more than 100 Websphere application servers in as400 and with instanta I cannot monitor them, so I request your help so that they have this need and the collector is created, as well as tivoli monitoring, apm, Icam
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Delivered

Add support of SLES15 on zLinux for Apache(IHS) tracing, to suppport Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring

We want to use Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring, through Apache HTTPd tracing module. Now our IBM HTTP Server v9 is running on SLES 15 on zLinux. Please provide the support of SLES15 on zLinux. Now we only support SLES 12 on x86-64 arch...
8 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2 Delivered