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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
12 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Future consideration

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Request for 32-bit Support in mqtracingexit for ITCAM MQ Agent Compatibility

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-tracing#downloading-ibm-mq-tracing-user-exit-for-on-premises-ibm-mq We are currently facing an issue with the IBM MQ Tracing Exit (mqtracingexit) on one of our Linux environments t...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration