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Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
20 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitoring Artemis MQ with Instana

Dear IBM Team, We utilize extensive queuing for our applications and are planning to transition to Artemis. To ensure seamless monitoring, we would like to integrate Artemis MQ with Instana. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards, Meghraj Ram...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Instana UI : Display monitored Service names in host page

We need to monitor windows services but on host page can only see pid & process names. Since these services are all using same process, we cannot really know which service is what. Displaying actual service name and description on host page (e...
6 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

SCVMM Multiple Domains and Users

We need to opportunity to connect to one SCVMM with different users of different domains. That is because we are running different domains in a single scvmm with no trust between these Domains. The problem now is that we only can use one User for ...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Enable Redis monitoring with certificates for Instana

Instana's current monitoring config the Redis instance does not use credentials to ensure monitor & retrieve data security, which means it does not support certificates. The lack of certificates support may become a shortcoming in future secur...
22 days ago in Instana / Automation 3 Submitted

Plugin to monitor the creation/modification of files in BLOB (azure)

There is a filewatcher program that monitors files on on-premises servers, allowing jobs to consume these files. But there is nothing similar to monitor files in the Azure cloud - BLOB
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
9 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Submitted

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
21 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Add an integration with a source code management/testing tools such as GitHub/GitLab/Jenkins to measure Four Key Metrics(DORA Metrics)

Background: In today's software development landscape, achieving high performance in delivering software is crucial for gaining a competitive edge. DORA(DevOps Reaserch and Assessment) Metric, also known as the Four Key Metrics, provide a standard...
29 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted