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Support for PostgreSQL in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PostgreSQL.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support for NGINX in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for NGINX, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 3 Delivered

Instana Agent Installation on MQ: Configuration Challenges and Retry Mechanism Concerns

We encountered some issues during the Instana Agent installation on MQ. Below are the steps we followed and our observations Initial Installation The Instana Agent was installed with the default configuration, running under the "system" account. C...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Tibco EMS Monitoring: Change number of queues / topic

When monitoring Tibco EMS the maximum number of queues or topics which can be monitored are limited to 200. This should be changed to any value the customer might want to choose knowing the possible impact that might have.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Delivered

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered