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Instana

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Enable Selective Monitoring Support for Instana for Z (z/OS)

Instana for Z currently does not support Selective Monitoring using environment variables, causing excessive discovery and preventing targeted JVM monitoring on z/OS. Requesting an alternative mechanism (JVM args, config files, etc.) and documenta...
29 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0

Ability to aggregate and group Kafka topic metrics in a single dataset when building Infrastructure dashboards for Kafka Clusters.

When building custom dashboards for Kafka clusters using the Infrastructure & Platforms data source and Kafka Cluster entity type, it is currently not possible to select multiple topics in a single dataset and aggregate or group their metrics ...
30 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Need to support HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration

Dear Team, at the moment Instana agent is not able to recognise HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration and it looks like the agent sees the container and JVM inside it, but doesn't collect metrics from Cassandra instance. this make a gap between cas...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Under review

Instana Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud (OCI)

I'm looking for a Cloud service agent for Oracle Cloud like Instana one for Azure or AWS in order to be able to observe the services we are using: Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Autonomous Database (ATP/ADW) Data Catalog Integration Cloud (OIC) Gen ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 4 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.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Downloading and executing Java files in synthetic monitoring.

Hello,We require a product enhancement in Instana Synthetic Monitoring to enable the controlled download and execution of Java files (JARs/classes) within synthetic monitoring scripts. This would allow the script to download a Java artifact from a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

I want the default display when a user accesses the Team configuration which I configured

Currently, Instana allows you to restrict the screen visibility of users based on the settings assigned to a "Team." For example, you can display only specified apps, such as the Application Perspective. However, the current default behavior is th...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 4 Functionality already exists

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release