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Instana

Add a SELinux policy for the Linux Instana agent

Currently the Instana agent rpm package does not ship a SELinux policy. This can create some issues depending on the host configuration. Moreover, if restorecon is run on the Instana agent directory, it will prevent the agent from running. A good ...
2 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

Infrastructure linking for MaxScale proxy mariadb

The proxy (MaxScale) operates between the application and the MariaDB instances, preventing Instana from correlating database spans with infrastructure entities. Thus, a MaxScale tracer/integration is necessary to facilitate the correlation with M...
11 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Enable Memory Profiling for .NET Applications

Instana currently provides .NET CPU profiling, but memory-related issues are often equally important when troubleshooting application performance. Adding memory profiling for .NET would help identify memory leaks, excessive allocations, object ret...
4 days ago in Instana / .NET Submitted

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Instana (k3s-pods) CPU and MEMORY reservation(requests) at startup is much too high in relation to the real utilization. Results in high number of CPU/MEM at startup which is not used in running state. (Expensive resources)

We are using the self-hosted Instana Standard edition (k3s). More than once we have problems with messages like too less CPU to startup (pending pods). Several times we added CPU but what we see is that when it is running in production the utiliza...
24 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

SNC is added as a SAP ABAP connector.

Due to security requirements, remote monitoring of SAP instances must be adjusted from JCo to SNC.
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Openshift HCP Monitoring

We can not Monitor Kubernetes control plane components, such as the API server, controller manager, scheduler, and etcd, run in a separate management cluster like Openshift HostedControlPlane setup.
11 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

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...
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Enable migration for existing customers of Instana (on-prem or SaaS) from standalone Instana to Concert Core Observability (as part of Concert platform)

As we released IBM Concert platform, we are getting requests and interests from existing Instana customers to transition to Concert platform and move their existing Instana deployments into Concert platform (which now includes Concert Core Observa...
4 days ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

Enable changing the application name in the JDBC connection.

Ability to modify the application name in the JDBC connection within the DB2 agent configuration.The agent establishes a JDBC connection to DB2 using the default application name "DB2JCCAPLICATION"; however, the client wishes to identify each conn...
4 days ago in Instana / DB2 Submitted

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