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Support for running Instana Agent with security restriction on kubernets for MQ only

We are looking for a solution to collect all the logs and metrics from MQ deployed on kubernetes pods. We are interested only in MQ, no other IBM products. Our restrictions regarding deployment are: Pods can't have these settings: hostNetwork: t...
29 days ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Must-Gather tools required for the Instana Agent

The Tiger Team is working with support an others on a tool called Tiger-Optics that is using AI to analyze Must-Gather data from customers to help accelerate problem diagnostics. So far we have done work to process data for the backend. This is pa...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Future consideration

Enable Oracle sensor to montitor local instances (PDB)

Need the ability to support multiple local instances. Adding an environment variable is NOT feasible when multiple PDBs exist.
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Co Stop (%CSTP) metric visibility and alerting on Co Stop peaks over time

We presented the vSphere Agent for the customer and ability monitor the ESXi environmet, After presentation the customer required to see the co stop alerting on Instana before giving us the go t implement the solution. This is quite important for ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Need to organize the Agent installation screen differently

As we have added more and more installation options, the installation screen as shown in the attachment has gotten unruly. There are two major problems. First, we now have so many options that you require a scroll bar to see all of the viable opti...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Want an option for automatic one-liner and Windows install in Infrastructure mode

When performing an installation using the automatic one-liner or the Windows installer, there is no option to setup the Agent in infrastructure mode. This can cause a number of problems. There are times when applications are sensitive to the RFH2 ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Disable Unused Sensor Discovery in Instana for z/OS to Reduce TFP CPU Cost

Instana for z/OS currently performs unconditional sensor discovery for all supported technologies, even when customers only use a small, well‑defined subset (e.g., WebSphere and Java only). Under IBM Z Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP), any avoidable CPU...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z Future consideration

Provide a comprehensive and correct sensor version/release/tag list for a static agent package

Hi, While debugging some .NET tracing issue a constant source of confusion and irritation was/is the versioning and tagging system. Each part of the agent has at least one independent version or release number which is not listed in a comprehensiv...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Add a CVE report in json format into each new agent rpm

Our organisation requires us to keep software on latest or latest-1 release of all software.Due to the rapid release cycle for the static agent rpm (every 2 weeks), this puts a lot of pressure on teams to keep updating the product - we have thousa...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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