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Support for Azure Container Apps

My banking client develops their AI related application on the Azure Container Apps. We support tracing for some languages ( .Net or GO ) running on the Azure Container Apps, but it seems we don't support Azure Container App for getting metrics fr...
2 months ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Report on 429 Throttling Issue in Azure

Dear colleagues, Azure limits number of requests which can be made by one service principal. This way if customer grow fast enough creating more services from Azure they may loose monitoring for the Azure resources. This may go unnoticed for long ...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Request enhancements to Azure PrivateLink integration

AWS PrivateLink already provides integration features. However, in the financial and industrial sectors, many users rely on Azure, and since private network connectivity is required for mission-critical systems, there are cases where proposals can...
3 months ago in Instana / Azure Submitted

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.
4 months ago in Instana / Azure Functionality already exists

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

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 ...
9 months ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

azure pass monitor add metric fqdn of service sql database and postgres

Users connect to Azure databases through fqdn, but Instana lacks this metric, which makes it difficult to accurately associate with specific databases. Therefore, this metric needs to be added.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure

About Azure MySQL Lock

Is it possible to collect Azure MySQL Lock-related metrics and set up events? Assuming no, is there a roadmap for the future?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure Future consideration