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Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
over 1 year 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

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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

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.
8 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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
almost 2 years 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...
6 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...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor Planned for future release

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