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Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Synthetic POP support for the s390x architecture

In order to perform Synthetic Monitoring within Instana a Synthetic POP must be established. Unfortunately container images for Synthetic POP are only available for the x86 architecture. Our Instana environment is running on an OpenShift cluster t...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

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
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Increase days for retention for traces and calls

Currently Instana allows to keep the history of calls and traces for 7 days, however, due to business requirements and policies that the entity must comply with before other areas and governmental entities, Instana is requesting to extend this ret...
8 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

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

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 5 Not under consideration

Support for IBM MQ on native IBM i Agent

IBM MQ sensor support on IBM I agent locally.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review