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publish Agent release notes with every Agent release

Currently some agents are pinned to a specific version, whilst other dynamic agents auto update. We control which versions are deployed where this way to ensure problems that occurred in the past do not reoccur. Updating pinned agents currently is...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

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

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Allow to Adjust Tag Explorer - Untaggable Spend

The Untaggable spend KPIs do not allow the ability to exclude products that passthrough a resource ID but are not taggable. Therefore, the KPI values displayed as is do not provide an accurate depiction of the dollars or percentage of Untaggable S...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Big Query, have the number of request as a metric available in Cloudability

Big Query, have the number of request as a metric available in Cloudability
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Needs more information

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Pull all columns from vendor billing and allow custom dimensions based on field

Currently, the Transaction Type and Seller Name columns are not being ingested by Cloudability from the BQ table, as these columns were newly introduced by GCP. Having these columns will simplify reporting significantly, as all marketplace items c...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration