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Extend the support of NGINX monitoring and tracing for Red Hat Linux OS platform

Currently Red hat Linux OS does not supported for monitoring and tracing NGINX . Using NGINX on Red Hat OS is widely used in our bank .
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Future consideration

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately.

AIX processes reports "Started At" inaccurately. If we restart Instana Agent it gets the time from the Instana agent restart as "Started At"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 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.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists

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...
11 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Built-In Event for User Locks

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Built-In Event for User Locks
6 months ago in Instana / Automation / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration