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Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration

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