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Enable support for STIBO metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Provide information from textbase MBeans and nested MBeans within Instana.

For the client (Continental) it is very important to see information from textbase MBeans as well as nested MBeans within Instana to determine RC’s. But Instana is not capable to do so because nested Mbeans and textbase MBeans are not recognized b...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Set up monitoring for DB2 threads for Guardian Prod servers in Instana

It is useful for customer to access the real time active DB2 thread counts. It is beneficial for Guardian customer to monitor the ongoing situation of DB2 thread count of cloud activities whether they are heavily consumed or moderate, which helps ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

"IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfers" is not available in Grafana

"IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfers" is not exposed in Instana, unlike "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Agent" and "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Coordination Queue Manager". This means that you cannot select "IBM MQ Managed File Transfer Transfer...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Filter the 'Current Transfers' table

The 'Current Transfers' table (for MQ MFT) currently shows the transfers as 'Successful', 'Completely Failed', 'Started' or 'Progress'. Could you add a filter to this table, for example with checkboxes, so we could filter in/out (un)wanted statuses?
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need to include GRANT statements in the documentation

Customers struggle in setting up the applications so that they can be monitored by Instana. In our DB2 sensor documentation, we include the privileges that are required in order to monitor the database, but we don't include the commands necessary ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow custom events be created for entity type: IBM MQ MFT Monitor

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Monitor is not available as an entity type to select when creating a custom event. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Monitor when they are in a status other than STARTED.
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Queue triggers missing for threshold creation

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue triggers to replicate a situation our customer uses in Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in the parameter implementation. Below are the different example...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

High Availability (HA) for Instana AWS Agent (Cloud Watch Kinesis Stream)

Introduction:-------------We want to make heavy use of the AWS Instana Agent on various AWS Accounts 50+. The Teams want to see and use the AWS Metric Data in Instana for Alerting and Analysis.Therefore we plan to set up an Instana AWS Agent. We l...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release