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Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 8 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

nginx v29 support needed

Customer had to upgrade NGINX to v29 due to security issues. We need to speed up release for v29 because its not supported by the latest Instana version. Due to this reason customer has lost some monitoring abilities for their critical systems. Cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 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,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

add aws rds EBSIO% metric into Instana

If you add aws rds EBSIO% metric we can create an alert it
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered