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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

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

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

Create an Instana agent sensor for CP4D

While Instana can generically monitor the infrastructure, OCP cluster and services that make up CP4D, it does not collect and visualize any specific internal CP4D metrics. Instana agents use sensors to monitor various technology components which c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the DB2 sensor to be able to monitor the DB2 diag log (db2diag.log)

The DB2 diag log (db2diag.log) contains a critical set of information for customers wishing to monitor their DB2 servers. Many Warning and Critical conditions are logged to db2diag.log. In addition, for customers looking to migrate from IBM's olde...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration