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About hiding the Managemet menu

For pods in production and disaster environments, there is a function that allows you to restart and reboot from the Management menu displayed on the pod screen of Instana. Since it is an environment that anyone can touch, the target was accident...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

Scope - Host availability detection

under System rule "Host availability detection", we would like have option for Scope setting, for instance Selected entitites by Zone or by Host Name.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Add support for MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication

Instana agent does not support monitoring MongoDB configured with Kerberos Authentication
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

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