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Support for vSphere 8

Hi team, We found out that Instana supports vSphere until version 7 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-monitoring-vsphere#supported-versions Please support version 8. Thank you
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 8 Delivered

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Enable recording access logs for each Instana tenants with different tenant and unit names.

[Background] The customer has created separate tenants for the production and development environments.According to the Case, when there are two Instana tenants(Tenant#1,Tenant#2) with different a tenant name and a unit name, and when users logged...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Delivered

Monitoring K8s PVC Storage space

Hi! We need the ability to monitor storage in Kubernetes as per article: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/ Instana Request #30622 was logged for additional documentation, but stated that it is not possible yet.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered