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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, ...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

support for extracting traces from multiple instances (running on two different ports)

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Improve usability of Oracle sensor to diagnose problems

I had an interesting conversation with a customer regarding Oracle monitoring. Customer is Radial. I’m going to open an Idea, but wanted to pass along the info. The customer has other tools today that they use for monitoring Oracle. He described a...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configure MTLS for IBMMQ

The Use case behind this is that the client needs to configure MTLS for IBMMQ, and needs to provide the certificates (and password/secret) via JKS files. Basically trying to accomplish this in the helm chart: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Capgemini needs to monitor their applications running on Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming)

I am working with a client named Capgemini that needs visiblity on their z-hybrid applications. During our scoping session we discovered their developers develop applications via Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming) which sits on top o...
9 months ago in Instana / Azure / 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)
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Report offset lag for kafka consumers

I created a library/custom utility that monitors the kafka consumers and records the offset lags across our event driven architecture. It is further integrated with LogDNA and slack which helps to send alerts to the squads for any offset lags in a...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support Prometheus Metrics on Openshift through Openshift Annotations

The option to use OC annotations to collect Prometheus Metrics is not supported by Instana (yet)?
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Display summarized mainframe CPU consumption of all JDBC calls to Db2 on z/OS of a single frent-end request, and Instana dashboard can sort by this summarized CPU time.

Mainframe CPU consumption is critical data for application monitoring, currently Instana on z/OS can collect CPU time from SMF data for each JDBC call to Db2 on z/OS and all these data have been sent to Instana. It will be very valuable and helpfu...
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration