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Instana

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Automatically discover, list, and monitor all operating system processes running on a host

Background and current limitation Please enhance IBM Instana so that it automatically discovers all operating system processes running on a host and provides a complete process list with key resource metrics, without requiring administrators to ma...
13 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
26 days ago in Instana / Tracing Planned for future release

Support Azure AI Foundry OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints in Instana LLM Gateway

We would like to request an enhancement to IBM Instana LLM Gateway to support Azure AI Foundry's Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints, enabling customers to use their own enterprise LLM services (Bring Your Own Model / Bring Your Own GenAI). Azure AI...
about 1 month ago in Instana / GenAI observability Future consideration

ITCAM MQ cfg SET QUEUE NAME should have a way to exclude queues

Currently the SET QUEUE NAME option in the MQ agent .cfg file is only able to include queues. This makes it difficult to exclude specific queue names such as SYSTEM.AUTH.DATA.QUEUE. Being able to use regular expressions in the selection of queues ...
3 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 Submitted

Critical Websphere PMI metrics for Instana

Instana’s monitoring of WebSpehre metrics is inadequate for clients who are transitioning from ITCAM. ITCAM provides access to almost all of the PMI metrics and clients can use different sets of metrics as per their use case. For example, Enterpri...
4 days ago in Instana Under review

Instana Agent Scheduler: Enabling/Disabling of Sensors based on Trading Schedules & Market Holidays

In the Financial Services Sector (especially Securities and Brokerage), IT operations strictly follow Trading Market Hours (e.g., Pre-market, In-market, Post-market, Off-peak) and Market Holidays (including unexpected holidays such as Typhoon/Weat...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Enable configurable Instana backend and agent communication ports instead of requiring default 80/443 ports.

Many enterprise customers operate Instana in highly restricted network environments where standard HTTP/HTTPS ports such as 80 and 443 may be tightly controlled by centralized security or network teams. In these environments, customers may be requ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Enhance Dashboard Table Widget to Support Application Perspectives, Services, and Endpoints

The current Table Widget (Public Preview) supports infrastructure and platform entities but does not support displaying application-level entities such as services, endpoints, or application perspectives. Customers frequently want to create operat...
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

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