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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 ...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Capability to hide certain object types from “Add” and “+” button 

Prevent users from creating unnecessary objects that clutter up the environment
24 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Needs more information

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Enable User Impersonation Feature in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently offer a way for administrators to impersonate or assume the view of another user. This limits the ability to effectively troubleshoot user-specific issues or validate permission-based configurat...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Customize entity information on horizontal rows of Kanban

At the moment, it's not possible to customize the information displayed for horizontal rows on a Kanban board. We would like to have the ability to display the fields that are most useful for our users. For instance, as shown in the screenshot, we...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration