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Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

azure pass monitor add metric fqdn of service sql database and postgres

Users connect to Azure databases through fqdn, but Instana lacks this metric, which makes it difficult to accurately associate with specific databases. Therefore, this metric needs to be added.
5 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring of custom application ( Finnacle CBS ) running on c programming script, binaries (most with a .so extension)

Customer is using Finacle Application. They have Installed Instana Agent on AIX 7.2 Servers and can see hosts metrics for all servers and also the calls details from WAS Server to DB Server. But call details from APP Server to DB server are not sh...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

OS filters in mobile app in dashboard

- For Android, we have the list of device type. So it's impossible to filter by the version of Android (Android 14, Android 15, ...). - For iOS, we have only iOS or iPadOS. So it's impossible to filter by the version (iOS 15, 16, 17, ...).
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Prometheus complex queries in Custom Dashboards

Hi team, I want to use Prometheus complex queries in widgets, something like this: sum( avg(container_cpu_allocation) by (pod,node) * on (node) group_left() avg(avg_over_time(node_cpu_hourly_cost[10m])) by (node) * on (pod) group_left() label_repl...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration