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Ability to disable all sensors and discovery, and only enable those that we require

Our requirement: We want the ability to disable all sensors and their discovery routines globally, and then explicitly enable only the ones we need. This would mean no discovery or idle checks for technologies we do not use, and no unnecessary sen...
1 day ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 6 Planned for future release

Provide an agent (fleet) management through the backend UI

Hi, The capabilities of the configuration.yaml and the ability to stack several of those files are great but when administering literally 1000s of agents in a tighly controlled production system this proves to be very labour intensive and error pr...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

I want to retrieve only the necessary cookies when capturing cookies using custom HTTP headers.

Although custom HTTP headers allow you to capture cookie information, retrieving all cookies makes the data difficult to read. I want to capture only the necessary information within the cookies. In AppDynamics, you can capture only a specific sub...
5 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

"IN" operator in Rightsizing module

I would like to request the addition of an "IN" operator to the filtering options within the Rightsizing module. This would allow users to filter resources by providing a list of values (eg. resource IDs) in a single condition
14 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Support for NetMQ

Customer is using NetMQ and would like insight into this technology. NetMQ is a 100% native C# port of the lightweight messaging library ZeroMQ. https://github.com/zeromq/netmq
11 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

GCE Commitment Support for Additional Machine Types

G2, Nvidia L4, and Nvidia T4 are seemingly not yet supported. All machines types should be supported across both GCP Compute Engine CUDs and Flex CUDs.
14 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

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 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review