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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...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 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 Delivered

z/OS USS Started Task Procedure for Host Agent

Provide a method to allow for automation of Instana host agent under z/OS USS that allows for starting the agent outside of an SSH session.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i Delivered

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common Delivered

Add Support for Adaptive (Dynamic Baseline) Alerting in Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Currently, the Infrastructure Smart Alerts feature only supports static thresholding, even though the UI mentions “time-dependent” values. These thresholds do not adapt automatically to changes in system behavior over time. Instead, users must man...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered

MongoDb infrastructure monitoring enhancements

New features for MongoDB infrastructure monitoring
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 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 Delivered

Change the MSGW filtering by excluding the jobs in MSGW without a reply needed

Customers might have a few (or more) jobs in MSGW that don't actually need a reply. When configuring the MSGW monitoring in the INSTANA configuration.yaml, you can only define status/subsystem, so everything in MSGW would be considered, generating...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i Delivered

We have 7500 VMs monitored by monitoring at vCenters. We want to retrict the vSphere monitoring to ESXi level and want to disable VMs monitoring.

We have 7500 VMs monitored by monitoring at vCenters. We want to restrict the vSphere monitoring to ESXi level and want to disable VMs monitoring. Kindly prioritize it as monitoring high number of VMs without the requirement add performance overhe...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Delivered