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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

z/OS USS Started Task Procedure for Host Agent

Provide a method to allow for automation of Instana host agent under z/OS USS that allows for starting the agent outside of an SSH session.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

The OTel agent on Windows should be installed to auto start in the same way as the host agent

The windows OTel collector is not configured with any auto start configuration. This means that when a host is rebooted the OTel collector stops reporting until someone goes to the box and manually starts the process.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Delivered

Monitoring Weblogic - v14c not supported regarding IBM Instana documentation

Hi. Our big customer using Instana and core application on Weblogic. Recently they upgraded Weblogic ftom 12 > 14 but REGARDING Instana official documentation this is not supported: Currently supported versions are: 10gR3, 11gR1, 12cR1 and 12cR...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java Delivered

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Delivered

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent Delivered