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Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Instana for Zos with CTG on Linux

Hi, We are currently deploing our CTG on Linux (out side of the zOS) and we are planning to use instana for Zos. Can you provide support for the CTG on linux with instana for Zos so we would be capable to trace for CTG to zos workload. Regards, Be...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Log integrations with Grafana Loki logs system

We would like have option to integrate Grafana Loki logs managment with Instana. We are using IBM Openshift environment that ships application and inftrastructure logs to Loki.
7 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Enable Retrieval of Current CPU/Memory Usage for Kubernetes Pods and Namespaces via REST API

Currently, Instana’s API allows fetching the CPU and memory limit and request values for Kubernetes pods and namespaces. However, it lacks the capability to retrieve current usage metrics such as actual CPU and memory usage.
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Monitoring custom log files in AIX

We are configuring Instana on a customer's core banking solution. Most of the services in this environment are deployed on AIX servers. We noticed that some very important process logs are not captured by Instana so we tried the Open telemetry onl...
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 8 Planned for future release

Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Ability to get the volume of purchased licences through Instana API

Hello, Currently, I' m able to get the number of active apmhost and infrahost per day with the api endpoint : /api/instana/usage/hosts/{day}/{month}/{year} ############# Usage : https://xxxxxxxxxxx.instana.io ############# [{'time': 1724544000000,...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Automation 1 Future consideration

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release