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Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

The customer needs to have Cloudera metrics

We think could be better to have Cloudera monitoting in the "Platform" section because Cloudera links a lot of other infrastructure metrics below.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Is it possible to get an alert when a VM is live migrated in Azure

Is it possible to get alerts from Instana when VM is live migrated in Azure (Microsoft Alerts are inconsistent)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 2 Future consideration

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Sensor version and info per API

Currently it is not possible to query the version of a sensor being used by an agent. For many on-prem customers, the ability to get information programatically as seen in the screenshot (Sensor Info via the Agent Dashboard) will help automate tas...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration