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Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Future consideration

Default Dashboard for IBM MQ Monitoring (Queues, Channels, Connections)

🎯 Goal: Deliver a single, Centralized monitoring of MQ ( queues, channels, and connections), standardized dashboard that allows operations teams to quickly assess the state of IBM MQ environments across all servers, without the need for custom das...
about 2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Instana should display the same choprehensive view of OpenTelemetry-collected metrics as it does for our native Instana Agent collected metrics

When viewing standard screens in the Instana UI the same views and components should be displayed no matter how the metrics are collected. For example on the Platforms -> Kubernetes screen when you view a cluster where the Instana Agent is coll...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

IBM i agent to collect ILE/RPG/CL/Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light)

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
25 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review