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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

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

nstana Agent Operator: Missing Required Images, Incorrect Tag Usage, and No Offline Image Selection in Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog for Air‑Gapped OpenShift Environments

BWI reported that the Instana Agent Operator from the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog cannot be deployed successfully in air‑gapped OpenShift environments due to several concrete technical issues. Two required container images are missing from ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

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

If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Under review

Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert Under review

Want to be able to block Agents that don't have a "tag" with a compliance naming convention

The customer manages their monitoring solultion in a very decoupled way. Each business application is able to setup and deploy their own agents. But, there are naming conventions that are used to ensure that the Agent is supposed to connect. And, ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Under review