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Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
11 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under 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...
9 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.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Mobile version for Instana UI

Dear Colleagues, our customer asks for Instana UI suitable for mobile browsers or mobile applications for Android/iOS. When administrators far from PC it would help to reduce overall MTTR when they see incident details and perform preliminary inve...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

More details about unmonitored servers or components

Ability to automatically identify candidate servers for monitoring because they interact with the monitored applications or servers. This will uncover any relationships with critical application elements that may have been overlooked in current ob...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release