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Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

For container rightsizing, add data on whether horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) is on to the available data

Having information on HPA status is helpful in determining how to respond to rightsizing recommendations. It would be useful for customers to have this in Cldy vs. needing to look to other tools to find this information.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Do not show already terminated resources in Cloudability Optimize → Rightsizing recommendations

Problem:Right now the resource 'state' is not available in any manner within the optimization rightsizing tooling. This means that resources, such as EC2 instances, that have already been shut down and terminated are still showing the recommendati...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

RightSizing ROI screen should retain filters when you change data view

I am looking at the RightSizing ROI screens. I need to quickly flip between data views, whilst retaining the filter(s) that I have applied, to show different colleagues the effects that their changes have achieved.Every time I change the data view...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration