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Instana

Metric Explorer for Instana

Elevance Health has this capability in the Broadcom Wily tool and it was very convenient. It is lacking in Instana.
2 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Singularity (now Apptainer) Monitoring

While giving a Demo to St.Jude as a prospective customer they asked us about Instana and Container monitoring , specifically on a container software called Apptainer (formerly Singularity) which they are required to use. this was asked byt the HPC...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
2 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Submitted

Folder-Level Permissions Not Discovering Resources Across Multiple Projects

Having Instana supports only one GCP project per configuration is problematic from a configuration and management overhead point of view. The Instana documentation was not clear that sub-folders were not covered and has resulted in wasted effort i...
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

stanctl install path for air-gapped and non-air-gapped need to be the same

The customer initially did their Standard Edition install using the air-gapped package. Per the installation instructions, stanctl is placed in /usr/local/bin. Later, the customer was able to get the Instana repos white listed and changed to onlin...
5 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add ability to mark http status codes as errors though they are not in the 5xx range

Hi, Certain application owners in our organisation have the need to report error rates based on functional errors which are e.g. reported with a 412 (or other) http status codes. This is technically not an error and those requests are not marked a...
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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...
5 days ago in Instana / IBM Z Submitted

Add support for MQ HA using VCS (Infoscale)

Since many enterprises use VCS (Infoscale) to manage HA for MQ, historically it has always been the popular option, it would be great for Instana to support MQ HA using VCS.
5 days ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Db2 Sensor support env

One way to avoid storing the password in the agent's configuration file is to allow the use of environment variables. This allows the DB2 sensor to accept environment variables. YAML com.instana.plugin.db2: enabled: true local: - instance: db2inst...
8 days ago in Instana / DB2 Submitted

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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