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Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of custom application ( Finnacle CBS ) running on c programming script, binaries (most with a .so extension)

Customer is using Finacle Application. They have Installed Instana Agent on AIX 7.2 Servers and can see hosts metrics for all servers and also the calls details from WAS Server to DB Server. But call details from APP Server to DB server are not sh...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Ability to create e-mail alerts using filters instead of views

Have the ability to set e-mail alerts based off of filters instead of views (see screenshot) Example 1: I only want to receive e-mail alerts for accounts 1 and 2. Instead of selecting a view, I would be able to set a filter to where the e-mail ale...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

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

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

Opsgenie - possability of integrating the anomaly alerts with opsgenie

As mentioned in the title, it would be of interest to see the possibility of creating a integration so anomaly alerts can be sent to opsgenie.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 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

More Enhanced reporting for Anomaly Detection

Customer is able to see multiple anomalies in his tool. It's difficult for the customer to identify from which cost center the anomaly is coming from. Currently in the tool if we create a report for a specific anomaly, we have to add dimensions ma...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Version Tagging for agent and sensor

We want to have a version tag on the agent as well as for the sensors. At the moment agents have the version latest or a uuis. Also there is the boot version what does not have any functionality.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration