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Support for monitoring the RedHat virtualization platform

Couple of potential customers are using the RHV and they need complete monitoring of the platform in addition to the infra monitoring for each individual hosts similar to VMWare. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

High Availability (HA) for Instana AWS Agent (Cloud Watch Kinesis Stream)

Introduction:-------------We want to make heavy use of the AWS Instana Agent on various AWS Accounts 50+. The Teams want to see and use the AWS Metric Data in Instana for Alerting and Analysis.Therefore we plan to set up an Instana AWS Agent. We l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

PowerHMC: Allow grouping systems based on location and display it in the infrastructure view

We plan to monitor multiple datacenter. We will like to group the systems based on location or customer and display it in the infrastructure view.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

Add built-it metric to monitor top queries running more than 1 hour

In current Instana, monitor the top queries running more than 100 seconds, this 100 seconds is too short in our case. We want to monitor the running queries more than 1 hour. Please add this capability, thanks.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

expose datacenter together with nodeID at cassandra node level metrics

Cassandra metrics with instana are presented at cluster level or at node level. Cassandra clusters often have multiple data centers (DC). If one runs a nodetool status command, they can see a list of all nodes (showing node name, nodeID,...) group...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Nginx Metric Collection

The customer wants to enable metric collection for their Nginx-based application. These applications are containerized and running on OpenShift. We totally understand that we should change nginx.conf file in order to enable metrics collection (htt...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

understand which agent is used for monitoring a remote service

We are using remote monitoring of oracle-databases on some agents. How is it possible to identify in InstanaUI, which agent is executing the monitoring for a dedicated database / contains the config in configuration.yaml? This makes difficult al...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Cross-account Cloud Run Agent

in the monitoring cloud run docs at some point it says You need to configure one Instana agent to monitor the GCP project that you are interested in. A dedicated machine needs to be used to monitor GCP resources. If you want to monitor multiple GC...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

HAproxy reload is supported

Whenever HAProxy gets reloaded (because rules changed), the HAProxy process will get a new PID. Instana at this point will record the HAProxy as a new instance and this loop will continue over and over. Could we get this fixed?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Automatic recognition of local DB2 instances

When using DB2 on the local machine only 1 DB is recognized namely the one you enter in the configuration. It is possible (inter has a script for this they can show us if needed) to recognize the instances which are running locally for automatic d...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration