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Instana

API Enhancement for AS400 Active Jobs Details in Instana

Hi Team, As of now, in Instana for AS400 devices under the "Active Jobs Information on IBM" parameter, we are able to fetch the following column details through the API query provided by the Instana vendor: Job Name User Name Elapsed CPU Percentag...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Power Planned for future release

Need better handling of mistakes in the mqtracingexit.conf file for MQ tracing

Minor syntax errors within the mqtracingexit.conf file cause the MQ Tracing to file. There appears to be sensitivity to whether or not there are spaces between the parameters, the equal sign, and the value. This is related to support case TS022198...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Static javaagent-loader for quick JVM instrumentation during startup

Background The Instana Java agent currently attaches dynamically to already running JVMs. We often see issues with dynamic attachment, and we want to slowly move away from the dynamic attachment to static attachment to decrease the number of custo...
about 2 months ago in Instana Planned for future release

Would like the agent supoorted on Rocky Linux and Ubuntu 25.04

we have teams with applications on servers with OS of Rocky Linux and Ubuntu 25.04 which i see that they are not supported to get a monitoring agent installed .we would like to see if theres a plan to get these OS also available
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

.Net Ingest Control

According to IBM's documentation on controlling ingestion, (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=instana-optimize-data-ingest-in) there is currently no control allowed for .Net applications. We need this ability to remove certai...
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET Planned for future release

Report on 429 Throttling Issue in Azure

Dear colleagues, Azure limits number of requests which can be made by one service principal. This way if customer grow fast enough creating more services from Azure they may loose monitoring for the Azure resources. This may go unnoticed for long ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure Planned for future release

Support for additional AIX Error Types (Pending, Unknown, Info) and Classes (Operational, Undetermined) in Instana Host Agent

Monitoring AIX infrastructure using the Instana host agent. By configuring the aixEventsPollRate under the com.instana.plugin.host plugin in configuration.yaml, the agent successfully retrieves permanent/temporary error types and hardware/software...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common Planned for future release

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB Planned for future release

Folder-Level Permissions Not Discovering Resources Across Multiple Projects

Having Instana supports only one GCP project per configuration is problematic from a configuration and management overhead point of view. The Instana documentation was not clear that sub-folders were not covered and has resulted in wasted effort i...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Planned for future release

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