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Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 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

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...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 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

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 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

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Planned for future release

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

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Planned for future release

Windows cluster monitoring

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