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The Instana agent’s config file currently lacks an AND operator for include_tags and exclude_tags

The limitation of the AND/OR operators for include_tags and exclude_tags in the config file is that they currently only support an OR operation, not an AND operation. This means that when multiple tags are specified in include_tags or exclude_tags...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Co Stop (%CSTP) metric visibility and alerting on Co Stop peaks over time

We presented the vSphere Agent for the customer and ability monitor the ESXi environmet, After presentation the customer required to see the co stop alerting on Instana before giving us the go t implement the solution. This is quite important for ...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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

Would like the agent supoorted on Rocky Linux and Ubuntu 25.04

we have teams with applications on servers with OS of Rocky Linux and Ubuntu 25.04 which i see that they are not supported to get a monitoring agent installed .we would like to see if theres a plan to get these OS also available
13 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

disable hosted instana agent bedrock LLM payload

this is follow up to TS022046587 TS022046587 solution is still using span UI to hide bedrock LLM call payload on UI we need a new feature to add new env etc following to disable LLM call payload for hosted instana agent in ecs fargate INSTANA_LLM_...
27 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent

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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Future consideration

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