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Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3

Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
11 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Cross teams/areas 3

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Option to discover newly added services or Agent to Instana

Once applications onboarding to Instana on a daily bases we are looking if we can get notified as and when new service shows up in Instana. This will help us to keep a track on service and host details which got onboarded to Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Logging integration with Grafana Loki

Feature Request: We would like to connect our Instana with Grafana Loki, so we can benefit from a centralized (Instana) place to view and analyze logs and metrics. Currently Instana supports ELK,Splunk, Coralogix, Humio and Mezmo. Any considoratio...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 3 Needs more information

Db2 custom workload's metrics

Current Instana supports only Db2's default workload (SYSDEFAULTUSERWORKLOAD). In many cases, Db2 users create custom workload(s). Such users would be happy if Instana can collect these custom workloads' metrics.
4 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review