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Treat proxy installations/upgrades as their own category of install.

At this time, there are two "categories" of installation for RIA/RNA from an internet access point of view: Normal and Air-gapped. This idea is treat installations behind proxies as their own category. The documentation currently barely covers thi...
8 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

"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...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

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

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Modify Try-Catch node to catch all errors.

At this time, Try-Catch-Throw blocks do not capture all errors, and instead cause the workflow to stop. This may be due to JS's handling of errors, but the client would like to be able catch errors from database query blocks and handle them, even ...
10 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Is a defect

Ability to check for Integration updates through a proxy

Simple one: Include functionality in the API pod such that it is able to check for updates from Automation Library (or S3) through a proxy. Right now only the NodeJS and Worker pods can do this it seems, but it being able to do it from the API wou...
10 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow Git push/pull functionality for Workflows use a proxy.

In RNA, administrators can use Git to push and pull workflows from the UI. However, this cannot be done if the RNA host is behind a proxy, instead it will throw "something went wrong". While the Workers (Running of Workflows) and NodeJS (Configura...
10 months ago in Concert Workflows 0 Future consideration