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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...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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...
3 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...
4 months 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Azure/GCP: The Instana agent’s config file currently lacks an AND operator for include_tags and exclude_tags

The limitation of the AND/OR operators for include_tags and exclude_tags in the config file is that they currently only support an OR operation, not an AND operation. This means that when multiple tags are specified in include_tags or exclude_tags...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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