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Instana

    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...
    10 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

    ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

    We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

    On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

    AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 8

    Enhance IBM i (AS/400) dashboard capabilities for Active Subsystems, Jobs, History Log, and Journal Details.

    We have a banking customer running critical workloads on IBM i (AS/400). Instana already collects the required IBM i metrics and supports Events/Alerts, however we are currently blocked from delivering custom dashboard capabilities for IBM i orien...
    4 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

    Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

    Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

    Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

    Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

    Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

    Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
    12 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Future consideration

    Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

    We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Planned for future release

    Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

    Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
    6 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Planned for future release

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