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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...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Planned for future release

Improve Air-Gapped Package Integrity Validation and Download Experience

Air-gapped deployments often involve multiple transfer steps and intermediaries, each introducing potential risks. In real-world environments, packages may be downloaded through slow or unreliable proxies, transferred via USB drives, copied throug...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 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.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

How to monitor MinIO with Instana IBM?

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance. S3 API C...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

Ability to turn off the server-timing http response header

Hi, during a security test within our organisation the "server-timing" http response header was flagged as it was set on public APIs which should not reveal any hint about internally used technology. As this public API (for a bank) will never be p...
3 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...
4 months 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 ...
4 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

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