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Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

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

Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
3 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration

v3 API /api/v3/data/topn endpoint should allow for aggregationUnits to round to specific timestamps

Currently, V3 /api/v3/data/topn API allows for: AGGREGATION_AUTO (default value of v3 endpoint) AGGREGATION_DAILY AGGREGATION_HOURLY AGGREGATION_MONTHLY AGGREGATION_WEEKLY timespans in its API endpoint. This corresponds to shortterm data buckets o...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

"discover-netflow" should display the current source of flow in mapped instead of the last link

Given the way Netflow is design, its possible to fail over from a lab environment was able to continue collecting netflow. However, there is a little caveat when it comes to the display name and management: Currently the NMS does not actively trac...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 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...
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

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration

Support for MQIPT

We have confirmed via email that the IPT verification process is to check the logs for the start message. IPT is just a Java proxy, so Instana can see the channel that’s routed through IPT, if the channel is up in the customer's QM, then IPT is up...
about 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Alert clearing condition based on no change to indicator value

For generating an alert, there are trigger/clear conditions based on "Changed", "Changed To" and "Changed From" But there is no way to clear an alerts if it does not change for X amount of time. It would be helpful if there is an option to impleme...
3 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration