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Please provide users with a summary of the release notes for the sensor version upgrade.

We would like a system that notifies users when updates occur for the sensors they are using, allowing them to understand the updates. It would be preferable if only the necessary information from the monitored data is notified to the users. Howev...
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Paint Brush Icon to "Customer Status" Field in Target process

I would like to propose adding a paint brush icon to the Customer Status field in Apptio Targetprocess. This visual enhancement would help users quickly identify and differentiate the status of a customer at a glance, improving usability and visua...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 2 Under review

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Suppport Custom field of a type Targetprocess Multiple Entity in detailed view

Suppport Custom field of a type Targetprocess Multiple Entity in detailed viewCurrently not available according to dev guide https://dev.targetprocess.com/docs/detailed-views-1#add-custom-field
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Needs more information

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Improve API filtering for URL custom fields

According to the documentation at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/targetprocess/tp-dev-hub/saas?topic=v2-working-custom-fields#filter-by-custom-fields, it is not possible to filter a custom field by value if it is of type "URL". For instances which re...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration