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verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Custom Service Rules

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name to the list of tags in Custom Service Rules ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-services#create-a-custom-ser...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Under review

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release