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GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
about 1 month ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 5 Planned for future release

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Services and applications should support opentelemetry logs

Application Perspectives (and Services) cannot currently display logs ingested from OTEL, even though the logs are mapped to a service. We raised support case TS020036806 which was closed with the advice to submit an Aha idea for this to go to our...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0

AWS Fargate Agent (Node.js) needs drizzle support

The drizzle driver for postgres isn't traced in this Agent/sensor. Can we get that added into this agent for tracabilty in AWS RDS Postgres via the drizzle library?
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Needs more information

Server/Agent-Level Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Instana

Hi Team,Currently in Instana, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can be applied at the Websites, Mobile Apps, Business Process and Applications etc... levels. However, there is no provision to assign access permissions at the server or agent level. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration