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Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
8 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
11 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Create Alerts on Usage

Customer is using CRIO They are asking for the ability to create alerts on the following: Namespace: stg-cp4i-ace Pods: contains stg1* 1. CPU: 95% usage of cpu requests 2. Memory: 95% usage of the requests Checked with @Jayanth Putta and confirmed...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration