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Sensor for TMON is needed (z/OS clients running MQ)

We have several clients using TMON instead of Omegamon. We have several clients that run MQ and error messages are written to TMON. Without the ability to monitor TMON, we lack visibility to other issues when they crop up as a result of service de...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Add support for INP

Currently you support data on other CWV, when will you be adding INP?
12 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Suport for monitoring FusionAuth java-http

We are asking for suporting this technology, java-http, used by this fusionAuth distribution, https://github.com/FusionAuth/java-http/tree/0.1.12. Currently, the JVM is monitored, but the related calls are not registered at traces, which would be ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration