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Enhance the MFT agent dashboard

These "missing" metrics were not decided to show in the agent dashboard when the sensor was created:Total Timed Out Transfers The count of total timedout transfers through the agent.Total Retrying transfers The count of total retrying transfers th...
10 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support crash collection for react native mobile applications

Alrajhi Bank team not satisfied with the existent crash reports of Intana while monitoring the mobile applicationClient is comparing Instana crash reports to Firebase crash reports. To them, Firebase is much more advanced, and this is making it di...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 4 Future consideration

Would like to see the Queue represented in the Dependency topology for an application

In the customer's environment, our dependency map only shows the interactions between the Queue Managers. But, the interaction actually happens between the Queues. Since there are hundreds of queues on a queue manager, the customer wants to see th...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Alert when sensitive data has been collected

Because IBM has a large number of customers in the Financial and Healthcare industries it is important to have the ability to alert when potentially sensitive data has been captured. For example: social security numbers, dates of birth, passwords,...
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Collect Kernel Metrics for Rhel 8+

The customer requires the ability to understand the kernel's usage of CPU per core and Memory. This information directly contributes to their ability to maintain a proactive posture with regard to their infrastructure. Customer wants to see user a...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Windows Agent should be able to use AWS sensor

Windows Agent should be able to use AWS sensor - as per the documentation, AWS sensor can be used only with Linux. The customer's environment is based on Windows, so now he needs to deploy another VM based on Linux which will casue additional cost.
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configuration Precedence for Local and Client Binding Mode

When Client Binding mode is configured, the Agent will still try to use Local Binding mode first, which results in a plethora of error messages which could be avoided by simply skipping the automatic detection if a configuration has been set. This...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow OracleDB sensor data captured to be interrogated.

At present the information exposed by the OracleDB sensor is fairly limited. Furthermore, it is not possible to analyse the data in any detail. For example it shows top 10 SQL by CPU, but you can not search by SQL ID and see how the SQL has perfor...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OracleDB sensor to work for Oracle Standard Edition as well as Enterprise Edition

Currently the Instana OracleDB sensor requires Oracle Enterprise Edition to access the full functionality, as this requires access to some views which in turn require Enterprise Edition to avoid any breaches of Oracle licence. The enhancement woul...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka as an Alert Channel

Some customer as CA GIP want to collect all the data on a Topic Kafka to be consumed by other applications/services. We can do that with a middleware and a webhook, but having a real alert channel to send data directly with custom payload.
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration