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Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Sensor for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster 8.9.x

Need sensor tosupport for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster version 8.9.x
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OracleDB - adding support for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set

Hi, We have a need for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set to be added to the OracleDB sensor because we have customers who are using this character set which is not supported by default and because of that they will not have end-to-end visibility of t...
12 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

IBM MQ MFT alert payload: on an IBM MQ file transfer failed event, include which file transfer failed in the alert payload "text" field

Currently, when an event of "IBM MQ file transfer failed" happens, the user needs to login into the UI to examine the event to determine which file transfer has failed. When sending an alert, there is no information in the alert payload that denot...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration