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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Rename 'Current Transfers' to 'Current Active Transfers'

When file transfers are going on, and the Instana UI is in live mode, the 'Current Transfers' metric on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard always remains '0' (see the yellow highlight on the screen shot). On the other hand, the ...
21 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
7 months ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 4 Not under consideration

Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Need secure communications from the Instana Agent/Sensor to the IBM i server

Currently, all communications from the Instana Agent/sensor to the IBM i system are insecure. The customer needs to have SSL communications to ensure that traffic is secure.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Instana is really good at monitoring as observability of Kubernetes. But its capability is only focusing on Pod as Kubernetes deployment not as K8S CronJob that is so different.

Instana has plenty of built-in Events for Kubernetes Monitoring. However, some built-in events only suit Pods as Kubernetes deployment, not Pods as CronJob.Instana built-in Event : "Kubernetes Pod condition status" generates Critical Issue in the ...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Add support for pulling Kafka consumer lag time in Amazon MSK sensor

Currenlty we pull subset of metrics from what cloudwatch exposes for MSK, Customer requested that we pull Consumer lag time as well as this is key metrics they use for kafka performance trending.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review