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Integration DPOD - Instana

DPOD allows to see in depth what happens with the transactions on the datapower, instana does not have this functionality and it would be complementary to have this information at the application level, trying to have a complete end-to-end view.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

"N" Number of agents should be update at once.

If we are changing the mode Auto/On in the com.instana.agent.main.config.UpdateManager.cfg file. The agent will take automatic update. But, The mode should be OFF only, because as per SMBC standards, for any updates we should follow change request...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support IBM App Connect v13.0

Currently IBM Instana only support IBM ACE v11 and v12. We have setup latest version v13 for IBM ACE in our environment. When can Instana support this new version?
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Let integration with elasticsearch include filters of entire application perspective

Dear colleagues, at the moment button appears only on host, port, container dashboard: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=logging-elk#accessing-elk-from-the-instana-ui and leads to the correspondent item only. Please c...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Future consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release