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Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add a metric to monitor the percentage of system spool consumption (based on PRTPRFINT command)

The IBM i can accumulate spooled files over time and consume significant space, potentially affecting system performance. Currently, this consumption is only reviewed manually using the PRTPRFINT command, which leads to a reactive monitoring appro...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
8 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Future consideration

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
21 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
22 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted