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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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 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
about 2 months 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.
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 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

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...
8 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...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor Planned for future release

IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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

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