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'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Configuration Precedence for Local and Client Binding Mode

When Client Binding mode is configured, the Agent will still try to use Local Binding mode first, which results in a plethora of error messages which could be avoided by simply skipping the automatic detection if a configuration has been set. This...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka as an Alert Channel

Some customer as CA GIP want to collect all the data on a Topic Kafka to be consumed by other applications/services. We can do that with a middleware and a webhook, but having a real alert channel to send data directly with custom payload.
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Queue-Level Message Size Visibility

Instana can enhance its monitoring capabilities by introducing the ability to collect metrics for the message sizes at the queue level, complementing the existing feature of bytes received at the channel level.
8 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Configure MTLS for IBMMQ

The Use case behind this is that the client needs to configure MTLS for IBMMQ, and needs to provide the certificates (and password/secret) via JKS files. Basically trying to accomplish this in the helm chart: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Miss page_sets parameters in Instana thresholds

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors MQ pages (percentiles and total) with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situa...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Queue triggers missing for threshold creation

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue triggers to replicate a situation our customer uses in Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in the parameter implementation. Below are the different example...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration