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    Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

    In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Under review

    Rest API to configure Agent run mode

    We have a feedback from one of the customers who wanted to turn instana-agents off in bulk as a emergency shutdown in a situation where agents lead to production outage. (Happened in the past). None of the current REST APIs seems to have this func...
    25 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

    Ability to disable all sensors and discovery, and only enable those that we require

    Our requirement: We want the ability to disable all sensors and their discovery routines globally, and then explicitly enable only the ones we need. This would mean no discovery or idle checks for technologies we do not use, and no unnecessary sen...
    3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

    Ability to turn off Instana Agents via an emergency shutdown switch (API‑Triggered)

    Hi, In certain high‑risk or sensitive operational scenarios, our organisation needs the ability to immediately and remotely turn off all or selected Instana agents. Currently, there is no API-based mechanism to trigger an emergency stop of the age...
    16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

    Capability to change the GitOps branch for the agent offline

    Hi, While we are preparing a deployment mechanism for the Instana agent in an air-gapped environment we noticed that it is not possible to change the branch name with offline capabilites. Once it is initially set via the INSTANA_GIT_REMOTE_BRANCH ...
    16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

    If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

    With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 0 Under review

    Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

    As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 0 Under review

    I would like disk usage monitoring to be included in the "Custom Polling" metrics.

    Currently, it is not possible to change the polling interval for disk usage monitoring (default 1 second).I would like to be able to change the polling interval for disk usage monitoring in the future.
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

    Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

    Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
    4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 0 Under review

    IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

    as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
    about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

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