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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

IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Want RPM based Agent installs to setup a service account and configure Instana to run with the service account

The customer has a need to run the Agent as a non-root user. In this case, the user can have elevated privileges, but can't be root. The customer would like the RPM install process to have an option to create the user account and then configure th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Attach ACE with relocated attach dir

If IBM ACE is configured to use a relocated attach dir for its internal J9 Java runtime, Instana Agent is unable to attach automatically. Provide a way to configure the relocated attach directori(es) to the agent for consideration during JVM disco...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Agent to run as a dedicated user

Need to be able to run the agent as a dedicated, unique, non-root user while still being able to have auto-discovery. In addition to adding this feature, the commands run from the agent will need to be documented so they can be enabled for the use...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 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.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
12 months 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.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Planned for future release

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