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Instana

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Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Allow for time buckets on dashboards

When aggregating metrics over periods of time, Instana automatically adjusts and adds or averages metrics over different time buckets (for instance, for 1 hour, it groups in 1-minute, if we take 2 hours, 5-minute buckets, etc.)... If one could cho...
11 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Ability to turn off Instana Agents via an emergency shutdown switch (API‑Triggered)

Hi, In certain high‑risk or sensitive operational scenarios, our organisation needs the ability to immediately and remotely turn off all or selected Instana agents. Currently, there is no API-based mechanism to trigger an emergency stop of the age...
19 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Improve Custom Service rules in the UI and the backend

Hi, We need to adjust the service naming for some services as the automatically discovered names are not allowing us to monitor the services in context of the line of business and production environment. Adjustable custom service rules - regex ena...
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Under review

Monitoreo_sintetico_herramienta_captura

Para grabar la secuencia de transacciones de una aplicación de negocio web debe ser compatible con una herramienta como Playwright o similar que permita una facilidad de grabar, probar y generar un script de forma automática. Actualmente solo es c...
12 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Monitoreo_sintetico_filtrar_eventos

La herramienta de monitoreo sintético actual no incluye una función para filtrar o ignorar categorías específicas de errores, debido a esto, hoy no es posible excluir estos tipos particulares de fallas de las estadísticas evaluar la posibilidad ...
12 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Enable native distributed trace continuity across AWS Lambda functions orchestrated by Step Functions

We are implementing a serverless architecture with the following flow: API Gateway → Lambda → Step Function → Lambda Instana correctly traces the Lambda functions individually, but the distributed trace is broken when execution crosses the AWS Ste...
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
7 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Under review