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Plug-In or patch updates in ACE toolkits to enable better viewing such as expand capability of ESQL conditions

- Similar to Java compute node, where one can expand the code at function level; compute node must be equipped with similar capabilities to view the code in a better manner. - Users (developers) must be able to expand and minimize the code at proc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

What’s needed: Root Cause Analysis is provided at the same time some delay is detected (applicable for Aurora MySQL & RDS).

[Ideal Analysis Function] What we’d like to request you is to add a function of analysis which is able to show the detection of some delay and its root cause at the same time (I.e. : root cause clarification at the same time of the delay detection...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 4 Not under consideration

About adding available memory

In order to check the operation of the OS, please add the available memory calculated by the following formula. AvailableM=$(awk '/MemFree/{free=$2} /Buffers/{buff=$2} /^Cached/{cached=$2} /MemTotal/{total=$2} END {print ((free+buff+cached)*100)/t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Enable agent to connect Oracle database by using wallet.

Oracle DB is located at cloud and using wallet to connect to DB is mandatory.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Monitor Mongo Atlas API via HTTP proxy

All egress traffic must traverse an http proxy, so in order for an Instana Agent that is deployed within our environment to read the Mongo Atlas API, we require the agent configuration to support a configuration of a http proxy. This may also be r...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana where it is easily to debug more in case of db connections increase,load,memory and cpu issues
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

MSSQL Databases table usability improvements

The databases table for MSSQL is very useful to pinpoint which database is causing a high resource load, but the presentation of this table makes it hard to use: 1. The columns for User Connections, Virtual File Reads, Virtual File Writes and Tran...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

IIB ACE abend, dumps and syslog monitoring through Instana

We would like to monitor IIB ACE system logs, abend and dumps files through Instana remotely. Could you please provide this feature.
over 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to monitor Db2 instances with DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanism

Per the documentation, the DB2 sensor does not support DB2 instances that use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanisms. The customer that I'm working with is getting ready to switch their database over to use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication. In...
12 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Instana presents resource usage additionally display information from a cluster perspective.

The Ccstomer has presented their requirements for monitoring VMware content. Currently, Instana presents resource usage from a data center perspective, but they wish to additionally display information from a cluster perspective
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Not under consideration