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Would like Instana to support the writing of the agent logs to the syslog system - See support request 30210

We have both aix and linux agents. We had both agents successfully writing to our syslog for quite some time (> 9 months). Recently (perhaps 6 weeks ago), after we upgraded our agents, the aix agent no longer writes to the syslog. The linux age...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows, ticket support Request #28566
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there are so...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Support creating application yaml from already deployed app

When importing existing cluster or when apps are deployed outside MCM, add ability to create a simple application yaml so that the user can take advantage of MCM capabilities.
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Integration with data federation solutions (Spectrum/Noobaa) to more holistically manage and move stateful workloads

Client's are interested in data federation whenever app management/movement comes up. Would like to see a level of integration with both the IBM (Spectrum) and RH (https://www.noobaa.io/) capabilities to make movement of the associated app data se...
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Impersonation support for MCM APIs

I'd like to manage and provision software to a managed cluster through our MCM hub as the user requesting the software to prevent security issues arising from elevated privilege. For example, charts or operators that are configured to install to n...
about 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Tracing 'Send Email' actions

"Should we see emails sent by our java apps using springs Java mail sender? (I am missing outgoing Emails inside the trace or the email-server as an unmonitored system / host)"
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 0 Not under consideration

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime

Please add the ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration