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Introducing automatic instrumentation for WebSphere Application Server

Hi Team, We are struggling with configuring website monitoring for a core banking system deployed using IBM WebSphere application server. And we are not getting support from the core banking vendor to add the ieum script provided by Instana and we...
27 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
9 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Require DNC appliances to support much higher FPS than supported limit of 80KFPS on single appliance

DNC appliances are spec'd based on the Number of Interfaces and FPS (Flows Per Second). Different devices can be distributed to multiple NMS appliances (DNC's) for handling large FPS. However, how can the NMS monitor single devices that far exceed...
3 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Needs more information

Adding events logged in the standard output / systemout logs in WebSphere Application Servers

Hi Team, We noticed that many of the core events like applications getting started and stopped which are deployed in WebSphere Application Server are not recorded in Instana backend either as an event, alert or log. Please consider adding such eve...
4 months ago in Instana / WAS 2 Functionality already exists

Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
3 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration

Collect, process & report Azure NSG/VNET flow logs

SevOne DNC already collects and process flows from different endpoints. With addition of Azure to this list will allow SevOne to be positioned uniquely for being single source of truth for both on-prem as well as Cloud networks.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Future consideration

Create baselines based of netflow data

The specific ask from the customer is the ability to learn normal behaviour (and alert when there is an anomaly) of the IP flows going through the network (source IP, dest IP and application). This is a specific use case, but it would be great if ...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release