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Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Planned for future release

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

Currently, I want to monitor Minio (Object Storage Tool) with Instana in order to have first-hand status information. At this time I have not found any relevant information regarding Instana and Minio for monitoring.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
4 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Planned for future release

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 6 Planned for future release