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Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s

Alert to monitor CPU throttling in EC2s. We should ability to setup alert and dashboards.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Mike Hofmann

The instana kafka sensor is monitoring kafka with zookeeper config only. ZK is deprecated in future releases of kafka and will be replaced by kRaft. We have need to monitor a kafka/KRaft setup. This AHA request is a follow-up of case opened for th...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for PostgreSQL in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PostgreSQL.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
12 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review