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PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
4 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
6 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Under review

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
7 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 1

Monitoring of Custom Application Error Codes by Instana

The customer uses Instana for Unified Payment Interface application monitoring. They want to monitor error codes generated by UPI application by Instana.
7 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Functionality already exists

Capability to forecast on metrics

Provide ability to forecast the outcome of any metric, including custom metrics, based on any context forecasts context (tag/label/etc.) and scale dynamically with infrastructure and applications. Similar capability to what competitors have: Datad...
11 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard

Can you add the definition of the different levels of thresholds to the widgets. In example , three levels (green, yellow and red) which will change the color relative of the passing thresholds. Chart Time Series, Big Number.
12 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Ability to investigate Active Sessions

Whenever Instana shows high Active Sessions for a particular war file, there is no way to investigate high Active Sessions. Please add more details about active sessions to find how and who created these sessions (some basic information for who c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Implementation of log suppression function with "CRI-O"

We would like to deal with this problem as soon as possible. Since I want to suppress the output of Instana Log, I was previously taught how to support it. However, the adapted method is log suppression for "containerd" and cannot be applied to lo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration