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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

Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Cannot rename/label hosts

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

Need a "Hostname" field when using a Remote monitoring sensor

With many of the Instana sensors that do Remote Monitoring (MQ, MQ FTE, DB2, Oracle, etc.), there isn't a field that allows a customer to identify the hostname of the remotely monitored system. I'm working with a customer that it integrating Insta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

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

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 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

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Add support for Tomcat Server Datasources using the Oracle UCP Driver

This would provide additional visibility into Tomcat applications that use the Oracle UCP datasource. Today there is no visibility for datasource usage on Tomcat servers using the UCP driver. This makes it difficult to correlate pool usage/availab...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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