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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

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 7 Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pre-Purchase Plan

It is a different kind of commitment that should also be visible in Cloudability.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Hierarchical Account Picker for Azure Commitments in Committment Portfolio.

Currently we cannot see all the commitments which are bought on the child account when selecting master account as a filter in committment portfolio.

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Snowflake Commitments

Commitment Support for Snowflake Commitments
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Memory DB

Commitment Support for AWS Memory DB
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration