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Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Output of netstat from host dashboard

In this particular case - execute a netstat command and get the output - perhaps in a popup window like we do for thread dumps or command line parameters. In general, I get requests to execute arbitrary commands from the context of a dashboard. ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Create IBM Cloud Functionality with TSAMP

TSAMP is currently not supported to run and installed on IBM Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Future consideration

TWS/IWS - develop integration with CyberArk to provide better security and password management.

As the need for tigher security increases, we are facing a need to better manage the passwords associated with IWS on Windows agents. We need to be able to change the streamlogon user (and the "TWS user") passwords more often, use a more challengi...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Event on Redis cluster integrity

We would like to monitor our Redis clusters' integrity. We run multiple clusters with multiple shards. Each shard should have at least one replica. Example output from `redis cluster nodes` with three shards each with a replica:# redis cluster nod...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Instana needs to create a sensor agent to observe Spectrum Scale on Linux on Z

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and is investing heavily in a hybrid cloud platform inclusive of Instana. We want to make use of this footprint and Instana observability capabilities across our hybrid cloud, withou...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Netcool/Impact

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Netcool/ Impact without having to acquire additional hardware
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Functionality already exists