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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.
    8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

    Want RPM based Agent installs to setup a service account and configure Instana to run with the service account

    The customer has a need to run the Agent as a non-root user. In this case, the user can have elevated privileges, but can't be root. The customer would like the RPM install process to have an option to create the user account and then configure th...
    22 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Planned for future release

    Attach ACE with relocated attach dir

    If IBM ACE is configured to use a relocated attach dir for its internal J9 Java runtime, Instana Agent is unable to attach automatically. Provide a way to configure the relocated attach directori(es) to the agent for consideration during JVM disco...
    23 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to change the Log retention back to 7 days

    After enabling logging to allow open-telemetry log, the log retention period can only be 30, 60 and 90days. Due to disk space issue, we do not need to keep extended period of time. Customer should be able have the ability to change this retention ...
    24 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

    Need to monitor instance status

    Dear colleagues, our customer is currently monitoring Database statsus and instance status using Tivoli Monitoring and consider moving to Instana. They miss db2 instanace status in instana. We cannot collect the instance status using custom metric...
    2 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Planned for future release

    Monitor MySQL v8.4 DB

    To monitor MySQL v8.4 Database and collect detailed metrics, we need to configure the Instana Agent with defined credentials as referenced in this is part of configuration document. With that in mind, we see the message: "Client does not support a...
    2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

    Show "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O

    Please add the metric "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O containers. I am aware that in the Instana UI, I can view the "Memory Working Set Usage %" metric for Containerd containers:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.310?topi...
    2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

    Enable Instana integrations to IBM z/VM

    zVM is an IBM Enterprise grade hypervisor and there is currently no way to get performance metrices into Insana. Currently zVM can collect metrics from PERFSVM and send them to InfluxDB which is in turn integrated into Grafana via a product they c...
    3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

    Post-processing of ingested data

    This idea is to allow for post-processing of ingested data in Instana, essentially a custom transformation layer.
    3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

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