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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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Report offset lag for kafka consumers

I created a library/custom utility that monitors the kafka consumers and records the offset lags across our event driven architecture. It is further integrated with LogDNA and slack which helps to send alerts to the squads for any offset lags in a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support Prometheus Metrics on Openshift through Openshift Annotations

The option to use OC annotations to collect Prometheus Metrics is not supported by Instana (yet)?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Display summarized mainframe CPU consumption of all JDBC calls to Db2 on z/OS of a single frent-end request, and Instana dashboard can sort by this summarized CPU time.

Mainframe CPU consumption is critical data for application monitoring, currently Instana on z/OS can collect CPU time from SMF data for each JDBC call to Db2 on z/OS and all these data have been sent to Instana. It will be very valuable and helpfu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Missing mount point monitoring

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors mount success with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs of what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCAN KLZ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Queue triggers missing for threshold creation

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue triggers to replicate a situation our customer uses in Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in the parameter implementation. Below are the different example...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release