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Instana

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Third party integration with Icinga

Hi Instana team, I have a couple customers, principally FOD Financien Belgium, that use another German monitoring product called Icinga as their network/infrastructure monitoring tool, it would be highly useful to have the same integration capabil...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

WebLogic GridLink DataSources Monitoring

Customer is having many WebLogic instances in production environment configured with GridLink Datasources. This feature is required to monitor using Instana.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 3 Not under consideration

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Need to be able download PDF of current list of events

Hello colleagues, we have a request from customer to deliver option of downloading current list of Events/Incidents from "Events" in Instana dashboards. At the moment we have the functionality with "Custom dashboards", but it is not always an opti...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

implementing intelligent recommendations and remediation for Instana alerts

Got a feedback from my one of the largest manufacturer clients in Hong Kong. They would like to have a a quick summary of our Intelligent Recommendations and Remediation in the alert email. They thought that the current email does not have have th...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Tracing Granularity can show in microsecond

We know that the smallest unit ini Instana tracing is <1ms. somehow, there is couple of technology that sensitive to performance under 1 microsecond units. So, we hope that Instana can provide tracing in microsecond units instead of showing <...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 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...
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release