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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

Add Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect