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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Delivered

Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Delivered

Add Terraform Provider Support for Instana Mobile Application Alerts

Instana currently allows configuration of Mobile Application alerts through the UI and API. However, this capability is not available in the Instana Terraform provider, preventing organizations that rely on Infrastructure-as-Code from automating a...
13 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Have slack configuration natively within the Instana UI

With current slack integration, users must have permissions to create slack channels and generate the webhook URL. At the customer, there are users without these permissions. And, it would trigger security auditing and require security approvals. ...
28 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Metric and Dashboard for Server Uptime

Hi Team!Anyway to get Server Uptime information ?Most observability solutions have this feature, so would be very welcome Instana as well. Having server uptime visible in dashboards or alerts provides operational clarity and helps identify issues ...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Delivered

Intergration oracle hypervisor (KVM)

to be able to monitor KVM workloads similar to VM ware hyper V
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Delivered

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 4 Delivered

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
6 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 2 Delivered