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    Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

    Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
    22 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Planned for future release

    Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

    While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
    6 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

    Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

    Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
    23 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

    Ability to verify the expiration date of the “update access keys” from the Hardware Management Console

    This feature enables the verification of the expiration status of the “update access keys” within the Hardware Management Console. It ensures that administrators can monitor and prevent interrupted access to system updates and hardware management ...
    5 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

    WebMethods Integration Server Support

    We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
    over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3

    IBM i agent to collect ILE/RPG/CL/Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light)

    A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
    2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

    Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

    Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
    10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

    Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

    Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
    3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

    Custom Dashboard -use metric per Database (schema) already available under MSSQLServer

    We have valuable metrics under MSSQLSERVER server monitoring in instana. but it is not possible to create a widget with these metric. I need to be able to put in a custom dashborads for example: "Connections & Users" for a specific Schema on a...
    9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

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