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Instana

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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

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

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

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

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
12 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review