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Instana

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Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
18 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Planned for future release

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Instana for Zos with CTG on Linux

Hi, We are currently deploing our CTG on Linux (out side of the zOS) and we are planning to use instana for Zos. Can you provide support for the CTG on linux with instana for Zos so we would be capable to trace for CTG to zos workload. Regards, Be...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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