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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...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

To include "limited" network protocol into dependencies graph

hi, "potential" customer wants to see the link between databases server at the netwok topology diagram, aka service dependencies graph.i understand network connections could be messy, so if instana agent can limit and configurable, i.e if we can c...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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...
22 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 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.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Delivery of instana otel collector (IDOT) as an rpm

Here is our scenario: our servers cannot freely access the internet to download anything we cannot freely download things from the internet to our desktops This means we cannot use the oneliner script to install the collector as it requires ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent

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.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Enable URL/Hostname to be Supported to JS - Only url/path configuration is supported for now

The current EUM auto‑instrumentation issue is driven by unsupported selector filters specifically hostname‑based filtering. Since Tomcat auto‑instrumentation officially supports only URL/path match expressions, Need to enable to support for RL/Hos...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent

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 ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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