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Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Name individual spring boot applications when sanitizing sensitive values

We have a customer with a lot of springboot applications and due to their sanitizing policy, we cannot see the application names in Instana and they show up as "*****", there are 3 solutions for this according to springboots own documentation: htt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Blocking sessions - Cassandra

Verizon is requesting support for providing number of and list of blocking sessions in Cassandra.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Idea: The password should not be mandatory for user creation if login is possible only with SSO

On our productive instance (https://cariad.tpondemand.com/), users can login only using the Single Sign On functionality. That means that they do not use the Login Name and Password to get access to Targetprocess since they are authenticated ...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

OKR collection capability from external source

We need to have a way to connect our external OKR management tool with our ATP OKRs. USers currently have to enter them manually.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 2 Needs more information

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Idea: User Custom Quick Filter should include inactive users if they are not explicitly excluded

I have a list view on the User entity which contains active and inactive Users.This view has a Custom Quick Filter for Users. By the filter configuration, I decided that all users should be included: This filters seems not to work correctly.E.g., ...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Filters 1 Future consideration

Show docker container name in VM view

we are running some of our applications in docker containers. We would like to see the name of the running container within the instana "breadcrumb" view. In the VM View we have the same Problem. We can see a number of Redis instances, but we can ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration