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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
2 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Persistent filter from Infrastructure to Analyze Infrastructure

Hi team, When we navigate on the Infrastructure section and use Filters, we expect that the Analyze Infrastructure Button that is present in the UI will work the same way as it works for Applications, where we can jump from every level (Applicatio...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Analyze Infrastructure - Name Display improvement

Hi team, when we have entities with long names, they are not fully displayed in the Analyze Infrastructure View (see screenshot attached). In this case, as we identify the entities by the Suffix, we don't see it at all in the result table. We are ...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
9 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Viewing IBMMQ Channel Maximum Connection Count Metric

Based on the case TS020305515, Customer would need to see the maximum connection count of IBMMQ on the Instana UI metrics and to be able to create event based on maximum connection count but not the connection count only (which is already presente...
about 7 hours ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Automatic event creation for process alerts

We are looking for a solution to employ a predefined list of Processes on the agent config and would need an event for "process down" created if the Instana server detects that process metrics came in from a host at any point and maintain that sta...
2 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Integration into CMDB

ideally, Instana should have an integration with CMDB where information about these technologies and hosts are maintained. It will be efficient if Instana can read the CMDB so we can scope internal classifications for monitoring or alerting (Dynam...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
2 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
3 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted