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Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
9 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

User/Idle Session timeout should make currently open page unreadable

This is to improve Instana Security Footprint. When Instana UI User/Idle Session timeout triggers, only a small red popup on top right is shown saying you need to reautenticate, but the currently open page is still readable , potenially exposing s...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 7

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
5 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to monitor IBM MQ Alias Queues

The customer uses Alias Queues for the IBM MQ applications. Within Instana, Alias Queues are not monitored. So, the customer has no visibility into what's happening within their applications. For example, when they look at the Traces going through...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0