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Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
29 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
3 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

Instana to monitor Windows services for all the Start types like Automatic and Manual

To further enhance Windows host monitoring, we request an enhancement to the IBM Instana Windows monitoring to support detailed Windows service monitoring with the following features: 1. Ability to monitor all Microsoft Windows services for their ...
20 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters, Replication and realted metrics

An AlwaysOn Clusters view can help us to detect data synchronization issues, understand the behavior of availability groups, availability group state, node states, replication state, and identify cluster bottlenecks in SQL Server availability grou...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Associate synthetic tests to websites and mobile apps using the Terraform provider

Synthetic tests can be associated with applications, websites and mobile apps using the UI, but the terraform provider only supports the association with applications. We would like a way to get the association done for synthetic tests as well wit...
30 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
30 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

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
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

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

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
12 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release