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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...
17 days ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

2 thresholds ( one warning and one critical) in the same alert configuration

i see that alerts can either be critical or warning and not both. So i would be beeter to have an option of both for a condition without need to create separate alerts for warnings and critical.
18 days ago in Instana / Azure Functionality already exists

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor Planned for future release

Want the ability to monitor Azure Cloud directly from the SaaS backend

The customer wants our cloud monitoring to execute from the instana SaaS backend rather than running a sensor on a VM. The customer has many different organizations and accounts within the cloud. This means that multiple VMs need to be deployed in...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure Under review

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
6 months ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Add support for Azure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Instana

Add observability capability to Dynamics 365 to extend visibility into workloads running on that Azure service. That would enable an end-to-end traces accessing that service. That capability would be useful for all customers that are using Dynamic...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor Future consideration

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Azure Cosmo DB Storage

Instana does not analyze the behavior of Azure Cosmo DB Storage, it is necessary to be able to detect if there is a storage problem and alert about this.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure Future consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release