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Infrastructure

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Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page

I can see the AWS documenDB metrics in the infrastructure page however don't see any DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Services page. So i request instana team to list DocumentDB instance/clusters in the Applications-->Servi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Ability to create alerts on aggregated prometheus metrics values over multiple K8s pods

In the prom metrics business metrics are captured for which the sum/aggregation needs to be a potential value to be alerted on.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1

Instana support for monitoring Netezza

Customer is asking for a way to monitor traffic, load and performance for Netezza Performance Server in near real time.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
3 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration