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Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana - Update Prebuilt Dashboard for Tuxedo sensor

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues dashboard, we see commas for the Sender PID and Receiver PID columns. However, for the Servers grid on that same page, the PID column doesn't have any commas:1) Please remove the commas fr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for newest version of NGINX (Nginx Plus v29)

Customer according to security reason made the upgrade to newest NGINX. Bacause libraries for version v29 are not availabe they have lost some monitoring abilities for critical systems. We need support for v29 version ASAP.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release