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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 4 Planned for future release

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

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

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

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

Ability to export list of datalink connectors

I would like the ability to export the full list of datalink connectors and the relevant summary data related to the datalink connectors. This would be helpful in making a list of datalink connectors that might need to be reviewed for different pu...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Ability to add additional columns to Connections summary

As a TBMA, I often need to review my datalink connectors and how they are set up. For example, when closing time in Cost Transparency (Example, I want to remove 2024 from CT) I may need to review all my datalink connectors that are set to drop tab...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration