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Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
6 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Oracle Tuxedo Domain Dashboard - Update what the 'Messages' Reflects

Under the prebuilt Oracle Tuxedo Domain dashboard that shows Machines, click the link to get to a dashboard view of that machine. On this dashboard page, there is a Queues section. Today, there is a column that shows 'Messages' in the table that r...
8 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 2 Future consideration

The customer needs to have Cloudera metrics

We think could be better to have Cloudera monitoting in the "Platform" section because Cloudera links a lot of other infrastructure metrics below.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Cannot rename/label hosts

It is easy to segregate the servers
about 1 year ago in Instana / 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, ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 0 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

How can know the Consumers counts for which queue in Instana, We can only see the total here

I WANT TO want to know for each queue how many consumer there are. the count number are the total number for each queue there in instana. we can see the queue list below in instana,but I want to know how many number count for each queue have(we ca...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration