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Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
21 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
24 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
4 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Mule ESB version 4.x

Currently, Instana can monitoring Monitoring Mule ESB version 3.x, however, version 3.x is already out of support: Ref: Instana -> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mule-esb Ref Mulesoft: -&...
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
5 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
15 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
15 days ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2 Submitted

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
9 days ago in Instana / Java 1 Submitted