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Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
4 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
8 days ago in Instana / MQ 1 Submitted

All tables should have resizable colums

All UI tables should be able to resize its colums in order to see more information. Example: there are some tables that show incomplete urls and other columns that only show a number, but all columns have the same size and cannot be resized to see...
5 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL

Instana does not count walsender processes in the "Active Connection Count" metric for PostgreSQL Refer to Case TS019326267
1 day ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Visualize health of application and host in single dashboard/view.

Currently we need to check health of host and applications running on them separately. Since the health of host also affects the application health, it would be good to have a view which shows both application health and host health as one view. i...
1 day ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Display tag names for Hosts in the Infrastructure view

We have 2 zones defined with each zones having 20 servers for production and integration environments. Since there is no option to enable tag as display names for hosts on zones, its difficult to identify the application servers. It would be good ...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Customize email mail body and subject in Instana notifications

Currently we are receiving different subject lines for Instana alerts. We would like to customize the subject and email body of email alerts sent by Instana. Can you please enable feature to add custom templates for mail alerts?
2 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted