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Search results: Instana

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Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 Under review

Instana to monitor the JDBC connection percentage for the IBM WebSphere Application Server

Currently, Instana does not support monitoring the JDBC connection pool usage as a percentage of the total pool size for WebSphere Application Server. This feature is essential to detect and alert when JDBC connection utilization exceeds a defined...
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 Under review

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 ...
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

Monitoring Multiple Vcenters using single instana agent VM

Dear IBM, I am facing issue to monitor 5 Vcenters of my client with single instana agent, Vcenters Credentials i added in the configuration.yaml file but every time it takes last Vcenter to Instana UI. I used different approaches in the yaml as we...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Need to suppress Memory Alert usage for Standby pods

Here in openshift as MQ is Native HA, we have three pods configured out of which 1 will be active and other 2 will be standby pods. We have configured Memory usage alert based in namespace filtering. Here in MQ, Standby pods use more memory than a...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

How to handle common files and credential file ( xml, js and xslt format ) in GitOps ?

1. We have more than 100 files like error handlings or message in xslt. Can we upload these in store:// folder which can be visible to every domain ? 2. We have also some credential files in local folder for few domains. How can we handle these cr...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Under review