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Support for monitoring windows machine which is part of EKS cluster

As of now IBM Instana only supports monitoring of individual windows nodes. Currently there is no support for monitoring windows node/machine park of EKS cluster of AWS and On-Prem We need the list of instruction to monitor the windows machine tha...
29 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Not under consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Need ability to have daemonset deployment for window's cluster

Hi Team, Currently we have instana-agent daemonset to monitor the linux eks server. Also we have window's cluster in AWS where nodes image is - Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Could you please provide the daemonset yaml file to install the instana-...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

native integration with CyberArk

Instana currently lacks native integration with CyberArk, a leading enterprise privileged access management (PAM) and secret management platform. To support secure deployments and align with common enterprise security requirements, Instana needs f...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Integrations Not under consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Not under consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Agent update from Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who prefers manually trigger agent updates from Instana dashboard. At the moment we have a button "Update Agent" which works when Instana agent has access to the Internet. Many of our customer use Instana and mo...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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