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Search results: Sensor

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Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Tomcat Server Datasources using the Oracle UCP Driver

This would provide additional visibility into Tomcat applications that use the Oracle UCP datasource. Today there is no visibility for datasource usage on Tomcat servers using the UCP driver. This makes it difficult to correlate pool usage/availab...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Monitior Kafka Broker Certificate Validity

we are very happy with your Kafka Monitoring solution. There is one per broker metric which we believe is also worth monitoring. That is the validity of the SSL Certificate provided by the broker. If the certificates expire, the whole cluster stop...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under 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 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

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