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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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

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

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Limit vSphere monitoring by host tags

Customer requests for improvement in Instana for filtering out data from vSphere/vCenter. As our environment is quite large and concists of several vcenters, and multiple "general purpose" clusters, we want a more granular approach for scoping dat...
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

"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

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Not under consideration

Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration