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    I would like disk usage monitoring to be included in the "Custom Polling" metrics.

    Currently, it is not possible to change the polling interval for disk usage monitoring (default 1 second).I would like to be able to change the polling interval for disk usage monitoring in the future.
    1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

    DNS Sensor

    Hello Can we monitor DNS server on linux and windows with these metrics : Availability, Performance, Resolution Quality, Thread count, Query rate (QPS), Recursive vs authoritative query ratio, Cache hit ratio, Cache eviction rate, Negative caching...
    29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

    Provide an agent (fleet) management through the backend UI

    Hi, The capabilities of the configuration.yaml and the ability to stack several of those files are great but when administering literally 1000s of agents in a tighly controlled production system this proves to be very labour intensive and error pr...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future 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...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

    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-...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 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...
    2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 0 Under review

    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.
    3 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

    Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

    Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
    3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

    Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

    Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
    3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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