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Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard support a link icon.

Currently, App monitoring dashboard supports BigNumber widget with a link icon. However, BigNumber widget in Custom Dashboard does not. This issue be improved ASAP.
26 days ago in Instana / Automation 1 Under review

PII Masking is required for collected Kubernetes log message in Instana SaaS.

My customer, LG U Plus started using App monitoring based on the platform, "Kubernetes". Instana agents are collecting data including Kubernetes log messages and sending them to Instana backend SaaS. The issue resides in Logs collected and saved, ...
26 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Regarding the Usage Rate of the Oracle DB Temporary Tablespace (TEMP01)

We have received your response that the following SQL is being executed when retrieving information from the CDB. However, as a result, the usage rate of the temporary tablespace has increased. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT max(ss.inst_id) inst_id, ss.sq...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 4

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
12 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 4 Needs more information

Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration