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Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor Delivered

Add Native Alert Ownership and Metadata

Problem: Instana lacks first-class ownership metadata for alerts. Relying on custom payloads in the alert. Proposed Capability: Owner/team field on alerts Tag-based filtering Alert inventory and export APIs
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Custom Metrics Collection via Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Automation / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
about 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities Delivered

Custom Dashboards: Creating calculated values and then plotting them

In custom dashboards today, we can't seem to create a calculated value and then plot it as a single line. For example: 1) Go to dashboards and create a new time series widget. 2) Use data source: Infrastructure & Platforms 3) For metrics, u...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Delivered