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Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Support for Apache Sensor on native IBM i agent

Apache is a commonly used open source web server that is likely adopted by many IBM i customers. Having sensor support would allow Apache services to be seen in calls/dependency mapping.
28 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
about 2 months ago in Instana / PHP / Sensor / Tracing 0 Submitted

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted

add conditions to triggers in automation tab

for the moment, it is possible to create a script that is launched based on triggered events. We would like to be able to add more conditions instead of just a trigger to the automated part of the execution of the script. for exemple : we have a w...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted