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Need Instance parameter representation in thresholds and percentiles

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several parameters that we need to monitor Queue Channels: Instance numbers Instance percentile Channels percentile Our customer monitors them with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Last Backup Sensor Option to monitor by hours.

This metric only offer to monitor the number of days since the last full backup was done, this is ok but if there were a possibility to monitor by hours instead, would be a more precise and secure monitoring, because it would allow me to now that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Support different Container Runtimes in Helm Chart

Different container runtimes make their socket available under different paths inside their filesystem. For example containerd socket is under: /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock Dockers socket is under: /var/run/docker.sock Currently only the do...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Support for monitoring the RedHat virtualization platform

Couple of potential customers are using the RHV and they need complete monitoring of the platform in addition to the infra monitoring for each individual hosts similar to VMWare. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

PowerHMC: Allow grouping systems based on location and display it in the infrastructure view

We plan to monitor multiple datacenter. We will like to group the systems based on location or customer and display it in the infrastructure view.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Add built-it metric to monitor top queries running more than 1 hour

In current Instana, monitor the top queries running more than 100 seconds, this 100 seconds is too short in our case. We want to monitor the running queries more than 1 hour. Please add this capability, thanks.
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

expose datacenter together with nodeID at cassandra node level metrics

Cassandra metrics with instana are presented at cluster level or at node level. Cassandra clusters often have multiple data centers (DC). If one runs a nodetool status command, they can see a list of all nodes (showing node name, nodeID,...) group...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration