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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...
18 days ago in Instana / Azure 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...
13 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

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...
6 days ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 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

Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 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

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...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor Planned for future release

Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from IT...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging Planned for future release

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