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Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

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

Monitior Kafka Broker Certificate Validity

we are very happy with your Kafka Monitoring solution. There is one per broker metric which we believe is also worth monitoring. That is the validity of the SSL Certificate provided by the broker. If the certificates expire, the whole cluster stop...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

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

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to see NUMA Scoring from HMC per Lpar in Instana

Hi for HANA on Power it is essentiall to see the NUMA Scoring for each VM from HMC in Instana
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Not under consideration