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Search results: Sensor

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make @instana/aws-fargate working with Elastic search 6.X

Hi currently @instana/aws-fargate is not handling Elastic search 6.X Could you manage this ?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Openshift GPU Monitoring

In instana APM tool there is no information about gpus working on redhat openshift. It will be very useful to monitor gpu metrics, info and utilization data for openshift clusters connected to instana.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Actualfree and free memory usage - AIX server monitoring

Its has been noticed that the memory usage under the infrastructure monitoring is reporting incorrect readings. After working with the support, found that instana use Sigar library to collect the memory metrics, which offers two values free and ac...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration
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Collect data from Avi networks/Graphite Potential Sensor

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The customers use these products to get time series into Graphite. https://avinetworks.com/docs/18.2/graphite-container/https://hub.docker.com/r/avinetworks/avi-metrics Can we ingest them/build a sensor. Preferred option would be sensor but I thin...
about 6 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need the ability to monitor Db2 instances with DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanism

Per the documentation, the DB2 sensor does not support DB2 instances that use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication security mechanisms. The customer that I'm working with is getting ready to switch their database over to use DATA_ENCRYPT authentication. In...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

OracleDB sensor to work for Oracle Standard Edition as well as Enterprise Edition

Currently the Instana OracleDB sensor requires Oracle Enterprise Edition to access the full functionality, as this requires access to some views which in turn require Enterprise Edition to avoid any breaches of Oracle licence. The enhancement woul...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Capgemini needs to monitor their applications running on Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming)

I am working with a client named Capgemini that needs visiblity on their z-hybrid applications. During our scoping session we discovered their developers develop applications via Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming) which sits on top o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Nginx Metric Collection

The customer wants to enable metric collection for their Nginx-based application. These applications are containerized and running on OpenShift. We totally understand that we should change nginx.conf file in order to enable metrics collection (htt...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Not under consideration