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Instana

GCP cloud service agent being able to collect managed service tag\label information

Currently in GCP when using a cloud service agent to monitor managed services, the respective managed service tags\labels cannot be collected and sent to the instana backend with the corresponding managed service. This makes grouping services usin...
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Show version via labels/annotations for the instana agent operator

Currently when downloading the instana agent operator from github (https://github.com/instana/instana-agent-operator/releases) the version is only contained in the image tag in images.txt Looking only add the manifests in instana-agent-operator.ya...
15 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Collect Azure VM tags in addition to VM metadata

Instana currently collects Azure VM properties automatically within AZURE_METADATA (vmId, name, vmSize, and location), but VM tags are not included. Tags on other Azure resources are collected and appear in the UI correctly - apart from Azure VM T...
20 days ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Sensor support for opensearch application

I am working with potential customer verizon. customer's application team is looking to monitor opensearch application which is not supported by Instana officially. They are keen to monitor this and we have suggested to try elastic search sensor w...
21 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Improve Custom Metric Discoverability and Descriptions

Problem: Metric names are long and unclear, forcing customers to use scripts to understand them. Proposed Capability: Friendly metric names Inline descriptions Plugin → Metric explorer UI Hover/tooltips explaining metric meaning
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Automatically onboard new OpenShift namespaces

When new application namespaces are created in OpenShift, an agent restart is required for them to be recognized before instrumentation activity will commence. In an OpenShift cluster with 47 nodes, agent restarts can be a disruptive operation. I ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Planned for future release

IBM HTTP tracing module on Linux/ppc64le

We need to instrument HCL Commerce 9.1.19+ IBM HTTP Server v9.0.5.25, but as of today, this functionality is not enabled. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.315?topic=httpd-tracing-modules#ariaid-title7
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power Planned for future release

Add Python as client-side tracing for Elasticsearch

The tracing information for Python accessing Elasticserach Cluster is important since is widely used language.
2 months ago in Instana / Python Planned for future release

Enable URL/Hostname to be Supported to JS - Only url/path configuration is supported for now

The current EUM auto‑instrumentation issue is driven by unsupported selector filters specifically hostname‑based filtering. Since Tomcat auto‑instrumentation officially supports only URL/path match expressions, Need to enable to support for RL/Hos...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

IBM OpenStack Sensor: Add configurable Keystone API path, HTTP/HTTPS protocol, certificate verification, domain support, and Canonical OpenStack compatibility

The current IBM OpenStack sensor (com.instana.plugin.ibmopenstack) has several hardcoded defaults that prevent it from working with non-standard or self-hosted OpenStack deployments. The sensor appears to have been built primarily for Red Hat Open...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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