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Instana

Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing Planned for future release

Promote "Logs" blueprint on Application Smart Alerts to GA

We would appreciate deploying the "Logs" blueprint on production, but this first needs to be promoted to General Availabilty - it's currently in Preview. Advantages: Fast, low-effort alert creation for error/warning logs Developers can quickly...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Logging Planned for future release

Support for running Instana agent as non privileged user on Kubernettes

There are the following restrictions on Kubernettes for running the Instana agent: Deployment with an operator or Helm chart, but with the following restrictions: Pods with: hostNetwork: true, hostPID: true, privileged: true, hostPath mounts no...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Ability to use wildcards/regex to ignore/blacklist processes from monitoring

Hi, During the rollout phase we need to exclude a serious amount of batch jobs and other processes, most of the java based, from monitoring/tracing. The documented process: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=cha-configuring-ho...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Improve Blacklist command to include wildcards or RegEx when stopping Instana from instrumenting a process

The current Blacklist process only supports complete parameters. This is useful but fails to account for processes that contain only commonly used parameter or common processes that can refer to different paths or have different installation locat...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Instana Java tracing: provide static javaagent

In situations where Instana AutoTrace for Java does not work reliably, we offer a static javaagent to connect the Java application with Instana agent. The new static javaagent will pre-load with the Java application using the -javaagent JVM startu...
17 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

No‑Cross‑Border GenAI Processing for Instana SaaS

Highly regulated customers in DACH (e.g., Public Sector) require strict guarantees that no data leaves the EU at any stage of processing. Today, GenAI inference in Instana SaaS is performed via a centralised service outside the EU, which may make ...
3 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Host: Ability to configure / turn off host metrics

Hi, During our rollout we found a couple of Linux systems that mount >1400 disks. As each of those creates a couple of metric we ran into the limit: Monitoring issue: max_metrics_reached This left us without important metrics like memory usage ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

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