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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 ...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Delivery of instana otel collector (IDOT) as an rpm

Here is our scenario: our servers cannot freely access the internet to download anything we cannot freely download things from the internet to our desktops This means we cannot use the oneliner script to install the collector as it requires ...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Show version via labels/annotations for the instana agent operator

Currently when downloading the instana agent operator from github (https://github.com/instana/instana-agent-operator/releases) the version is only contained in the image tag in images.txt Looking only add the manifests in instana-agent-operator.ya...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

The OTel agent on Windows should be installed to auto start in the same way as the host agent

The windows OTel collector is not configured with any auto start configuration. This means that when a host is rebooted the OTel collector stops reporting until someone goes to the box and manually starts the process.
5 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

High Availability for the Cloud Service Agent

Currently the cloud service agent is a single point of failure. This idea is to advocate IBM looking to incorporate high availability throughout the full observability collection and monitoring stack. For instance, critical managed services may be...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Provide a comprehensive and correct sensor version/release/tag list for a static agent package

Hi, While debugging some .NET tracing issue a constant source of confusion and irritation was/is the versioning and tagging system. Each part of the agent has at least one independent version or release number which is not listed in a comprehensiv...
23 days ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

Need to organize the Agent installation screen differently

As we have added more and more installation options, the installation screen as shown in the attachment has gotten unruly. There are two major problems. First, we now have so many options that you require a scroll bar to see all of the viable opti...
9 days ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Want an option for automatic one-liner and Windows install in Infrastructure mode

When performing an installation using the automatic one-liner or the Windows installer, there is no option to setup the Agent in infrastructure mode. This can cause a number of problems. There are times when applications are sensitive to the RFH2 ...
9 days ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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

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