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Instana

Enhance the maintenance windows to give the possibility to decide what to suppress (Alerts, Events, Automation Policies)

I've recently started to configure instana for my IBMi environment, and after setting up my automation policies, i stumbled across the maintenance window which was my logical choice to prevent those policies to run within the maintenance scope (da...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor Delivered

Collect Azure VM tags in addition to VM metadata

Instana currently collects Azure VM properties automatically within AZURE_METADATA (vmId, name, vmSize, and location), but VM tags are not included. Tags on other Azure resources are collected and appear in the UI correctly - apart from Azure VM T...
6 months ago in Instana / Azure Delivered

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

There is no support or integration available for monitoring IBM HMC V11 within Instana.

A growing number of customers are migrating to IBM Power Systems with HMC Power 11 and require full monitoring capabilities within Instana as part of our Managed Services Platform (MSP). However, the current lack of support and integration for HMC...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor Delivered

Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing Delivered

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing Delivered

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store Delivered

Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i Delivered

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common Delivered