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    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...
    27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

    CPU Usage graph for AIX is misleading

    Now several CPU metrics is collected for AIX as attached. User System Wait Hypervisor Stolen idle cycles Used Idle These metrics is stacked on a single graph. But actually "Used" metric is sum of "User" "System" and "Wait", so the ...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Power 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.
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

    Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

    Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

    show build level for Power Firmware version

    We would like to see the full version for the Power Firmare. For now you can see the base version (For example: P H M Cversion V10R3), but we would like to see everything (For example: V10R3 M1062)
    2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Planned for future release

    Agent to run as a dedicated user

    Need to be able to run the agent as a dedicated, unique, non-root user while still being able to have auto-discovery. In addition to adding this feature, the commands run from the agent will need to be documented so they can be enabled for the use...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

    Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

    Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
    2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 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...
    2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

    Change ACE autodiscovery to work for non-running processes

    The autodiscovery for ACE currently works by looking for running ACE processes.Autodiscovery should discover all ACE installations, and all ACE entities (node, integration servers, message flows etc) whether or not they are running at the time. Al...
    2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Planned for future release

    Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

    Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
    3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Planned for future release

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