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Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Add "Connection Pool" metric for JBoss EAP 7

I need to monitor the http connection pool usage on some jboss eap 7 instances. I am looking for the following metrics:- available in EAP 7.0.9 & 7.1. The runtime statistics can be obtained via JMX MBeans org.xnio:type=Xnio,provider="nio",work...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Support AWS Cloudfront

Hello, Would it be possible to monitor AWS Cloudfront services in Instana ? Regards, Quentin
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered

Get container info button is available for containerd clusters

In clusters using the docker runtime there is a "container info" button in the UI - on the container details page - which shows environment variable values. This is missing for containerd clusters.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Delivered

Support RabbitMQ Engine for AmazonMQ

We want to migrate our self-managed RabbitMQ to managed AmazonMQ with RabbitMQ engine. Please add support for RabbitMQ engine to you AmazonMQ sensor covering the capabilities of RabbitMQ monitoring (including monitoring of queues).
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support AWS API Gateway

Customer asked if Instana could extend their monitoring capabilities by adding AWS API Gateway to the supported technologies.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered