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Instana support Encriptation local password

We Have 25 cliente, Currently, all clients use Sentinel as their manager vault. Instana is limiting this to only accepting Hachicorp, and clients feel they are being forced to purchase Hachicorp. Clients are complaining because the data is stored ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Include Embbebed Azul Zulu JVM in dynamic update

I am writing to address a significant limitation regarding the Azul Zulu JVM bundled with the instana agent. Currently, the JVM does not update automatically alongside the agent. When vulnerabilities are identified within the JVM component, the cu...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Adding script/ command to encrypt password for instana host agent configurations

Instana deployment: standard edition multi node adding a method to encrypt the password within the configuration file instead of using plain text password but using scripts/ commands not using hash vault or environment variable. Similar to the enc...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Integrations Not under consideration

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

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

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 ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 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...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 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-...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

AWS Fargate Agent (Node.js) needs drizzle support

The drizzle driver for postgres isn't traced in this Agent/sensor. Can we get that added into this agent for tracabilty in AWS RDS Postgres via the drizzle library?
9 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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