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Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Capture parameters of dynamic SQL statement for JDBC

Dynamic SQL is normally writing a query with parameters, and it will be very helpful to show the actual value of the parameters of SQL statement during problem diagnose. Current Instana can only display the SQL statement without the parameters val...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

add metrics support for undertow

undertow is an open source project behind Jboss. it's one of the most popular embeded web server in Spring Boot applications. customer has obersevability for this technology. customer is interested in metrics regarding http requests and thread poo...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add a new field with OS distibution info (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) that will be displayed in host details from Instana dashboard.

Host details from Instana dashboard is showing only kernel release field (i.e. linux 5.15.0-1038-gcp). It should be useful to add the OS distribution field (i.e. Ubuntu 20.04) as well. The field should be available for Linux. This information will...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana vulnerability reporting: Need a standard way of versioning the each technology monitored by Instana

I built a custom toolkit that provides a catalog of vulnerabilities found for the technologies monitored by Instana sensors. The source code is placed on GHE [here](https://github.ibm.com/AIOps-Elite-Team/instana-vulnerability-reporter). However, ...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

support for extracting traces from multiple instances (running on two different ports)

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Improve usability of Oracle sensor to diagnose problems

I had an interesting conversation with a customer regarding Oracle monitoring. Customer is Radial. I’m going to open an Idea, but wanted to pass along the info. The customer has other tools today that they use for monitoring Oracle. He described a...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configure MTLS for IBMMQ

The Use case behind this is that the client needs to configure MTLS for IBMMQ, and needs to provide the certificates (and password/secret) via JKS files. Basically trying to accomplish this in the helm chart: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Capgemini needs to monitor their applications running on Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming)

I am working with a client named Capgemini that needs visiblity on their z-hybrid applications. During our scoping session we discovered their developers develop applications via Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming) which sits on top o...
9 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration