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Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
22 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
22 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

'Turbonomic Parker' role not available in Cloudability Premium

Turbonomic standard software has a user named 'Parker' allowing users to manage start/stop and schedule of their VMs in the parking feature. Parker role only gives them access to this. This 'Parker' role doesn't exist in Cloudability Premium which...

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards / Views 0 Submitted

Documentation for Backing up and restoring data needs correction

Documentation for https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x?topic=guide-backing-up-restoring-data Please clarify documentation on the following This page says: imageRegistry: 423562884727.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.comrna:instance:addr...
25 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 3 Submitted

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
29 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
29 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Sensor on native IBM i agent

Apache is a commonly used open source web server that is likely adopted by many IBM i customers. Having sensor support would allow Apache services to be seen in calls/dependency mapping.
29 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted