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Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Active Directory Monitoring and Tracing

Application monitoring/tracing for Domain Controllers and Active Directory will improve our enterprise observability into a key application. By using Instana as the enterprise monitoring tool, we need all applications to be monitored/traced in a s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Delivered

RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Springboot-Sensor: Datastore connections to be monitored

Hello, the "jboss as"-sensor collects information about connections to datastores and provides it on the related dashboard (see example on attached screenshot).We need the same for springboot, therefore please add the capability to springboot-sens...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered