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Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

MS Graph probe

Vodafone Spain is using the Email probe with POP3 protocol to read a mailbox. They want to migrate that mailbox to Office 365 and they need to use another protocol to read the mailbox. They cannot use the EWS probe because it has a SOCKS proxy, wh...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

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

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
almost 2 years ago in AIOps Integrations 0 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

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Permit & Document method to allow customer hardening of AIOps Egress communications

Customers have specific requirements for the configuration of egress from the product - route restrictions, method restrictions, specific per-site timeouts etc. These are instantiated as additions or modifications to the external-facing nginx cont...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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