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    Monitor cpu and memory for sidecar container (defined under initContainer)

    starting kubernets 1.33, pods can have containers defined in two ways:- traditional .spec.containers - under initContainers with restartPolicy: Always. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ " Note: In this example,...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

    Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

    Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
    8 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration

    Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

    In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Under review

    How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

    MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

    Custom Dashboards: integrating Analytics' filters

    Not every client Instana user is an expert in the tools that it provides, and may not handle complex tasks with ease. Having the Analytics' saved filters as an automatic option integration in Custom Dashboarding would save a lot of time and possib...
    2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

    Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

    Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
    7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4

    Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

    On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
    6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

    Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

    The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
    8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

    Add Native Alert Ownership and Metadata

    Problem: Instana lacks first-class ownership metadata for alerts. Relying on custom payloads in the alert. Proposed Capability: Owner/team field on alerts Tag-based filtering Alert inventory and export APIs
    15 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1

    Improve Custom Metric Discoverability and Descriptions

    Problem: Metric names are long and unclear, forcing customers to use scripts to understand them. Proposed Capability: Friendly metric names Inline descriptions Plugin → Metric explorer UI Hover/tooltips explaining metric meaning
    15 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

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