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Corporate restrictions require RPM Agent install into a different directory from current default

Currently, the RPM based installs of Instana are hard coded to /opt/instana/agent on Linux. The customer has a rule that software MUST be installed into a different filesystem "/apps". They are not allowed to install anything into the /opt filesys...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Install Windows Agent without administration privileges

Hi team, we would like to have the option to install the Windows Agent without needing to have administration privilege. Could you consider this, understanding this might limit some of the functionality that the agent provides? Thanks in advance, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Extend Instana Selective Monitoring by technology and process properties

In its current form, Selective Monitoring requires changes to all applications / processes which should be monitored in an opt-in scenario. Making changes only only in the agent to select applications / processes would keep Instana specific config...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Agent startup should always use a local jvm if one is available within the agent durectory structure

Currently, when rolling out instana agents via automation, we have to explicitly unset JAVA_HOME to force the Instana agent to use the locally available jvm for the agent. We believe this should be the default that if an agent is available within ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

DNS Sensor

Hello Can we monitor DNS server on linux and windows with these metrics : Availability, Performance, Resolution Quality, Thread count, Query rate (QPS), Recursive vs authoritative query ratio, Cache hit ratio, Cache eviction rate, Negative caching...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Provide an agent (fleet) management through the backend UI

Hi, The capabilities of the configuration.yaml and the ability to stack several of those files are great but when administering literally 1000s of agents in a tighly controlled production system this proves to be very labour intensive and error pr...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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