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Observability Support for IBM QRadar SIEM Appliances Infrastructure Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for IBM QRadar

QRadar customers cannot observe their SIEM with Instana due to lack of official support. While a basic Docker Instana agent install on QRadar Community Edition successfully discovers infrastructure components (host, 7 Podman containers, 21 process...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Add the ability to rotate the Agent api key

Currently there is no way to rotate your agent's API key when using the SASS product, it'd be nice if it were possible to e be able to rotate it for security purposes
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Ability to turn off Instana Agents via an emergency shutdown switch (API‑Triggered)

Hi, In certain high‑risk or sensitive operational scenarios, our organisation needs the ability to immediately and remotely turn off all or selected Instana agents. Currently, there is no API-based mechanism to trigger an emergency stop of the age...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

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

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.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Regarding Monitoring of Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on a Single Server

In terms of PostgreSQL monitoring, if a single instance contains multiple databases, it is possible to monitor all databases. However, my understanding is that it is not possible to monitor multiple instances when there are several instances on a ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Under review

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...
about 2 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Under review

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