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Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Instana Agent/Sensor to monitor the ISAM & ISIM physical appliances

We have the IBM Security Access Management & IBM Security Identity Management applications which are hosted on the physical appliances. We are looking for an Instana Agent Sensor to connect to the physical appliances and monitor the applicatio...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rename the Apache HTTPd process name

We have multiple http servers from different environments/nodes sending data to Instana. All the Apache Httpd entities are shown with identical process name - 2.4.12(with additional fixes) @<process-id>*:port. There is no easy way to figure ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / 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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

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