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Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
6 months ago in Instana / Go 1 Under review

Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
13 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
13 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Set Session Settings for User Groups

The option to set "User session timeout" and "Idle session timeout" (in Settings - Security Access - Authentication - Session Timeouts - Session Settings) in the Instana SaaS backend should be allowed to be set for groups of users, rather than for...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration