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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 Disk & IOP usage to Infrastructure Comparison Table for hosts

It'd be useful to be able to have a view of all the nodes in an environment or K8s cluster that can be sorted by disk volume or IOP pressure. Infrastructure/Application Support/SRE would benefit. I imagine it working by being it's own column that ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Make Userid visible in "Top Processes" at the Host Dashboard or make it selectable/visible in Custom Dashbords for processes

Customer wants to see the running Userid of DB2 Instances. Actually it is hard to find out under which user the db2sysc Instances are running. You have to select all Processes and open the Process Dashboard. Customer need this information to easie...
11 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Filesystem specific statistics

Only these file system statistics metrics are available on the Host level Dashboard: capacity, used, leaked, inode usage. But we need additional statistics too. For examples: Read Calls Percent: Of the total number of calls made to the NFS serve...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need way to specify resource filtering for Built-In events

Dear colleagues, In Instana can monitor events using built-in capability for example "IBM MQ event - Channel SSL Error" or "IBM MQ Channel status". Our customer monitors it with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're in...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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