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Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing Planned for future release

Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

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

No‑Cross‑Border GenAI Processing for Instana SaaS

Highly regulated customers in DACH (e.g., Public Sector) require strict guarantees that no data leaves the EU at any stage of processing. Today, GenAI inference in Instana SaaS is performed via a centralised service outside the EU, which may make ...
2 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Alignment of IBM MQ Queue Visibility Between Instana Applications and Infrastructure for z/OS Environments

This enhancement is essential to enable true end-to-end observability across IBM Z environments within Instana by ensuring consistent and correlated visibility of MQ queues across both Applications and Infrastructure views. Currently, MQ queues ar...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 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...
about 1 year 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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
5 months ago in Instana / DB2 Planned for future release