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Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
15 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 2 Under review

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration