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Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for pulling Kafka consumer lag time in Amazon MSK sensor

Currenlty we pull subset of metrics from what cloudwatch exposes for MSK, Customer requested that we pull Consumer lag time as well as this is key metrics they use for kafka performance trending.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Collect Kernel Metrics for Rhel 8+

The customer requires the ability to understand the kernel's usage of CPU per core and Memory. This information directly contributes to their ability to maintain a proactive posture with regard to their infrastructure. Customer wants to see user a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Under review

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Podman support on zLinux

Currently, the Podman beta is supported only on x86 Linux. St.of CA has a very large zLinux infra base ->> we need Podman support for zLinux
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Under review