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Make Instana redis sensor support DragonflyDB, the Redis-compatible alternative

Many customers run DragonflyDB (a Redis-compatible alternative, instead of the standard Redis.) to host their applications, which claims provide better performance, more memory efficient, simpler operations, and dramatically lower cost. Since Drag...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

RIA: Allow forward compatibility with Backups.

At the moment, creating a backup of RIA via the toolbox addon is supported only for use on that version, e.g. a backup of v1.1.4 is only available for v1.1.4. This idea would enable official support for a backup to a later version, perhaps with a ...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Improve Documentation UI for blocks in Workflow editor

At present the only way to view what a block does (for most integrations) is to hover over a tooltip and read the contents. The problem is that these tooltips are sometimes empty, vague, cut off out of the UI or just don't render for some reason. ...
11 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Future consideration

Submit complex IBM ELM JVM Mbeans or string based Mbeans as events or logs to Instana

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Extending Instana JAVA-Sensor to collect additional metrics from IBM ELM JVM's

IBM Engineering lifecycle management platform (ELM or also known as Jazz platform) is a widely used Requirements management or Application lifecycle management platform in the industry. It is based on IBM Websphere application Server and the liber...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Update documentation for "Backing up and restoring data" with the steps for 1.1.5

Documentation to backup 1.1.5 does not show the steps to upgrade helm using the install.sh script. Please add supported method within V1.1.5 or later versions using install.sh https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-infra-auto/1.1.x?topic=backend-backin...
5 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

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 ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enable system logs towards syslog destination option

Currently RIA has an option located at Settings> System Configuration >Syslog destination but is not used for generating compliance and authentication logs towards a SIEM (Security Information Event Management) Can this feature include user ...
6 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration