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Agent

Lightweight / Modular Instana Agent Package for Large-Scale Enterprise On-Premise Deployments

In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., 900+ on-premise hosts with strict internal network bandwidth limits), deploying and updating the Instana Host Agent is a major pain point. The current Agent installation package is exceedingly large be...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Instana Agent Scheduler: Enabling/Disabling of Sensors based on Trading Schedules & Market Holidays

In the Financial Services Sector (especially Securities and Brokerage), IT operations strictly follow Trading Market Hours (e.g., Pre-market, In-market, Post-market, Off-peak) and Market Holidays (including unexpected holidays such as Typhoon/Weat...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Smart Root Cause Detection for "Agent Not Reporting" Events

## Executive Summary (Elevator Pitch) The current "Instana Agent not reporting" event doesn't differentiate between network issues, host failures, or agent process problems. During network incidents, this creates alert storms with hundreds of iden...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Alert Not under consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Include Embbebed Azul Zulu JVM in dynamic update

I am writing to address a significant limitation regarding the Azul Zulu JVM bundled with the instana agent. Currently, the JVM does not update automatically alongside the agent. When vulnerabilities are identified within the JVM component, the cu...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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 ...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

Adding script/ command to encrypt password for instana host agent configurations

Instana deployment: standard edition multi node adding a method to encrypt the password within the configuration file instead of using plain text password but using scripts/ commands not using hash vault or environment variable. Similar to the enc...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted Not under consideration

native integration with CyberArk

Instana currently lacks native integration with CyberArk, a leading enterprise privileged access management (PAM) and secret management platform. To support secure deployments and align with common enterprise security requirements, Instana needs f...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Integrations Not under consideration

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, ...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent Not under consideration

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