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AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered
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Support for Elasticsearch 8.2

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I am using elasticsearch for DB purpose and running 8.2 in the production. As per below document elastic8.2 is not supported yet. Please verify elasticsearch 8.2 and let us know. We are not seeing traces related to elasticdb in Instana by default ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
over 3 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered
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Instana support for Oracle RAC monitoring

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Currently Instana agent doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC, Oracle RAC is the common solution for production deployment, if Instana can support the monitoring of Oracle RAC, then it will enable us to monitor the database.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered
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Elasticsearch sensor is not working for Elasticsearch cluster 8.2.0

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I can see from the document below that Elasticsearch sensor only supported for Elasticsearch versions from 0.17.0 to 7.16.2. I am running elasticsearch 8.2.0 and looks like it is a blocker for us to monitor elasticsearch DB traces from app. Could ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

AIX - Allow ability to override 'top processes' that appear on prebuilt OS views

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, it doesn't show any 'top processes' based on CPU or memory consumed perspective. Per Ben Stern of IBM, that is due to the current default which will only show 'top processes' that meet this criteria...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Delivered

PostgreSQL getting the Databaseinformation from postgresql.auto.conf

Hi Instana Team, after I opened the Request #16366 (Instana Support), we had a nice call with your support member Danijela Medenica. We talked about our configuration in PostgreSQL and we told her, that we are using the postgresqlauto.conf inste...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered