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Instana

Add Python as client-side tracing for Elasticsearch

The tracing information for Python accessing Elasticserach Cluster is important since is widely used language.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Python Planned for future release

Enable URL/Hostname to be Supported to JS - Only url/path configuration is supported for now

The current EUM auto‑instrumentation issue is driven by unsupported selector filters specifically hostname‑based filtering. Since Tomcat auto‑instrumentation officially supports only URL/path match expressions, Need to enable to support for RL/Hos...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

Add Smart Alert Support for Container “Memory Usage Percentage” Metric

We would like to submit an enhancement request on behalf of Sobeys, who are actively using Instana to monitor their containerized applications running on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Enhancement Needed Add support for the metric “Container Memory Usage P...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Planned for future release

Multiple Tags at Object Level

Can IBM please add the option to allow multiple Tags to be associated with Objects at an Object level not Agent level, for example MQ Queue Managers / Ace Integration Servers . This is required on a large enterprise to allow custom dashboards to e...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 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...
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 Planned for future release

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