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Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Document instana agent log error message meaning, criticallity and potential resolution

Agent logs in our production and preproduction env are collected centrally in our logging plattform, but currently we cannot interpret message meaning and criticallity as needed for enterprise operation of our vending platform.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 6 Future consideration