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Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Namespace-Scoped Agent configuration

Based on my research, it is not possible to provide different configurations for agents deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. Currently, the Instana Agent operates primarily on a cluster-wide configuration.We propose/request a feature to enable differ...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Submitted

Support for running Instana agent as non privileged user on Kubernettes

There are the following restrictions on Kubernettes for running the Instana agent: Deployment with an operator or Helm chart, but with the following restrictions: Pods with: hostNetwork: true, hostPID: true, privileged: true, hostPath mounts no...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Instana Java tracing: provide static javaagent

In situations where Instana AutoTrace for Java does not work reliably, we offer a static javaagent to connect the Java application with Instana agent. The new static javaagent will pre-load with the Java application using the -javaagent JVM startu...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Ability to use wildcards/regex to ignore/blacklist processes from monitoring

Hi, During the rollout phase we need to exclude a serious amount of batch jobs and other processes, most of the java based, from monitoring/tracing. The documented process: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=cha-configuring-ho...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Improve Blacklist command to include wildcards or RegEx when stopping Instana from instrumenting a process

The current Blacklist process only supports complete parameters. This is useful but fails to account for processes that contain only commonly used parameter or common processes that can refer to different paths or have different installation locat...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Openshift Cluster Monitoring - Namepsace specifc

We need Cluster Registration & Metadata for specific namespaces excluding node information in Kubernetes Infra. The OpenShift platform team will not grant cluster-wide permissions (ClusterRole) required to deploy the Instana k8s-sensor via Ins...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Under review

Ability to turn off the server-timing http response header

Hi, during a security test within our organisation the "server-timing" http response header was flagged as it was set on public APIs which should not reveal any hint about internally used technology. As this public API (for a bank) will never be p...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Instana Agent Scheduler: Enabling/Disabling of Sensors based on Trading Schedules & Market Holidays

In the Financial Services Sector (especially Securities and Brokerage), IT operations strictly follow Trading Market Hours (e.g., Pre-market, In-market, Post-market, Off-peak) and Market Holidays (including unexpected holidays such as Typhoon/Weat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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