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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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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,...
almost 2 years 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
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Delivered

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered