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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...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Ability to turn off Instana Agents via an emergency shutdown switch (API‑Triggered)

Hi, In certain high‑risk or sensitive operational scenarios, our organisation needs the ability to immediately and remotely turn off all or selected Instana agents. Currently, there is no API-based mechanism to trigger an emergency stop of the age...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Add a CVE report in json format into each new agent rpm

Our organisation requires us to keep software on latest or latest-1 release of all software.Due to the rapid release cycle for the static agent rpm (every 2 weeks), this puts a lot of pressure on teams to keep updating the product - we have thousa...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Access to public Artifactory repositories via web browsers is restricted due to company security controls.

Our company laptops have recently been migrated to a cloud‑native environment. Previously, we used specific URLs with dedicated credentials to download Instana and MQ‑related software. However, under the new setup, the credential pop‑up prompt is ...
25 days ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Under review

Observability Support for IBM QRadar SIEM Appliances Infrastructure Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for IBM QRadar

QRadar customers cannot observe their SIEM with Instana due to lack of official support. While a basic Docker Instana agent install on QRadar Community Edition successfully discovers infrastructure components (host, 7 Podman containers, 21 process...
25 days ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Support for monitoring windows machine which is part of EKS cluster

As of now IBM Instana only supports monitoring of individual windows nodes. Currently there is no support for monitoring windows node/machine park of EKS cluster of AWS and On-Prem We need the list of instruction to monitor the windows machine tha...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

nstana Agent Operator: Missing Required Images, Incorrect Tag Usage, and No Offline Image Selection in Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog for Air‑Gapped OpenShift Environments

BWI reported that the Instana Agent Operator from the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog cannot be deployed successfully in air‑gapped OpenShift environments due to several concrete technical issues. Two required container images are missing from ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Under review

Ability to montior the agent mode changes due to separation of duties

As an IBM APM V8 and IBM Instana customer, this request is to ask for enhanced **agent mode monitoring and control** to support operational, security, and compliance requirements in environments with strict separation of duties. Requested enhancem...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert Under review

Want to be able to block Agents that don't have a "tag" with a compliance naming convention

The customer manages their monitoring solultion in a very decoupled way. Each business application is able to setup and deploy their own agents. But, there are naming conventions that are used to ensure that the Agent is supposed to connect. And, ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

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