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Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 7 Needs more information

"N" Number of agents should be update at once.

If we are changing the mode Auto/On in the com.instana.agent.main.config.UpdateManager.cfg file. The agent will take automatic update. But, The mode should be OFF only, because as per SMBC standards, for any updates we should follow change request...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration