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

Instana - Update Tuxedo prebuilt dashboard regarding default sort

Under Oracle Tuxedo sensor > Tuxedo Machine > Queues grid view, the default sort order is by queue ID. The default should be by # messages (second column) in desc order. Of course the workaround is every time going to the page to change the ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Add "path" value in helm chart with the Rabbitmq plugin defined

Hi, Please add the possibilty to add the "path" value in static-agent helm chart with using the rabbitmq plugin. All our rabbitmq containers are deployed with the "path : /rabbit". This path is not recognized by Instana because it's limited to use...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Need additional statuses of Queue Manager

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager statuses to monitor: "UNKNOWN" "REPOSITORY_ANAVAILABLE""QUIESCE""SUSPENDED""NOT_RESPONDING" These statuses our customer monitors with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release