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Output of netstat from host dashboard

In this particular case - execute a netstat command and get the output - perhaps in a popup window like we do for thread dumps or command line parameters. In general, I get requests to execute arbitrary commands from the context of a dashboard. ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 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...
almost 3 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.
almost 3 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Define custom alert for MQ Last put time like IBM APM

We have similar event in IBM APM solution and Instana is collecting the same metrics but cannot define custom alert on the same (Last put time not showing in custom alert). Instana infrastructure don’t support to use non metrics data(numeric) as c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Last Backup Sensor Option to monitor by hours.

This metric only offer to monitor the number of days since the last full backup was done, this is ok but if there were a possibility to monitor by hours instead, would be a more precise and secure monitoring, because it would allow me to now that ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Support different Container Runtimes in Helm Chart

Different container runtimes make their socket available under different paths inside their filesystem. For example containerd socket is under: /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock Dockers socket is under: /var/run/docker.sock Currently only the do...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration