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Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
about 2 months ago in Concert Workflows 0

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Operational Recovery Cloud Archive (ORCA) Integration

API Reference: https://nasa.github.io/cumulus-orca/docs/developer/api#internal-reconcile-report-phantom-api-output
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Instana built-in health metrics

Instana backend provide built-in dashboard panels showing basic health metrics e.g. agent connection status, data delivery etc., backend data ingress and data ingestion status e.g. infrastructure, eum, events, user and apm
11 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metric display

Please consider supporting non-us formats e.g. setting for deu-DEU formatting for metrics such as Dropwizard metrics
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for configurable TLS protocol version in IRIA/IRNA integrations

We are currently integrating IRIA (IBM Rapid Infrastructure Automation) with legacy Cisco ASA devices that only support TLS v1.0. However, IRIA’s default Node.js HTTPS agent uses TLS v1.2, and there is currently no way to configure or downgrade th...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Instana UI User Connection Management

Can we have the ability to manage our user connections to the UI? Reason is so that we can forcefully disconnect users in case of SOS and we don't want everyone to storm the Instana UI. We'd love to restrict access during emergencies quickly.
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 5 Future consideration

Enhance / Enable service flow map with metrics on service relation

Please Enable display of service metrics on service relation in Instana UI service flow map
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 3 Future consideration