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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...
19 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 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.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

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.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 7 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Need flexibility in RPM install to install the agent into a different directory

Currently, the RPM based installs of Instana are hard coded to /opt/instana/agent on Linux. The custom has a rule that software MUST be installed into a different filesystem "/apps". They are not allowed to install anything into the /opt filesyste...
18 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 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 ...
20 days ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration