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Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Start Date Time and End Date Time should be captured in Instana Alerts via Mail/MSTeams

We have configured alerting for our services in Instana, but we have noticed that the email notifications for triggered alerts do not display the start and end times of the alert. The alert email only shows severity, entity, and message. Start tim...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Adding Cluster Operator to monitoring by Instana IBM Kubernetes sensor

It would be very useful to have the ability to monitor the status of Cluster Operators in a Kubernetes cluster. Adding an additional tab to the Kubernetes status (see picture 1) Adding a separate sensor for monitoring Kubernetes Cluster Operators ...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be displayed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting O...
9 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 5 Future consideration

Incorrect Call Tracing in Instana with Oracle Service Bus

We are using Instana to monitor our Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Their Oracle Service Bus (OSB) plays a central role in handling both internal and external service communications. However, they have observed an issue in the Instana Analysis Dash...
3 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Not under consideration

Instana integrate or monitor the network to see a single infrastructure map

Currently, platforms such as appdynamics, dynatraces, datadog and others such as solarwinds, nagios, which are free platforms, have the ability to add and view both the networks and the servers in a single infrastructure map, which means that when...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration