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Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
2 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Data retention configuration by size of disk-space

On Instana Standar Edition (On-Prem) the current data retention configuration is only by time (e.g. 7 days) - It would be much helpful if we can also configure by size of disk-space (e.g. 5Tb) as current feature is not very useful for customers wh...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
26 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Request for Kafka Partition-Level Metrics Collection in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide the ability to collect Kafka metrics at the partition level. For example, it is not possible to monitor the backlog of messages for each partition. If such information cannot be obtained directly in Instana, it ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Under review

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
27 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
5 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review