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Allow custom events be created for IBM MQ MFT Agent status

Currently, IBM MQ MFT Agent Status is not available as a metric to create a custom event. Out of the box events can't be adjusted per customers requriement. The use case would be to create a custom event on IBM MQ MFT Agent status when they are in...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Instana Agent sensor to connect to the Openshift Monitoring Alert Manager, get the alarms and send them to Instana UI

Dear IBM, Right now in our Openshift clusters we have alarms generated by PrometheusRules and stored in the Alert Manager of the namespace openshift-monitoring. Those alarms only have visibility at the Openshift level and we would like to have the...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

"Save" feature is required in configuration tap of Websites monitoring for customers to check which options have been applied for EUM

In the configuration page at the tap of Websites, our customers should check which options have been applied, especially regarding "Set up an agent tracking script" such as Select the application framework used by your website(Multi-page app or Si...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enable host availability percentage (% Uptime) for a given time period

Calculating the host uptime percentage is essential, as it provides a simple yet critical metric that reflects how long a server has been available compared to the total monitoring period. This measurement is vital for assessing the reliability of...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release