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Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Additional data required while monitoring Oracle DB

Customer is interested to view more details while monitoring Oracle Databases using Instana. 1) SQL ID CPU Usage section shows all details except CPU Usage %. Also it would be useful to expand details about each Instana ID. 2) TOP CPU Consuming Se...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Native monitoring and Tracing for RUST

Collection of metrics, traces, and context-rich events from Rust-based services, bringing full-stack observability to one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in modern development. Rust is increasingly being adopted for building high-performance, re...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
5 months ago in Instana / Ruby 2 Future consideration

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration