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Start/stop instana agent looking for environment variable not set and maxdepth flag inside find which doesn't exist on AIX clients

Everytime an instana agent when stopped or started throws up this error on two environment variables not being set. JAVA_MAX_MEM' and 'JAVA_OPTS'. Assuming these needs to be defined in the setenv file. These variables needs to be set and exported ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Calico BGP routing support

No description provided
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Support for multiple proxy servers in the agent configuration

The ability to configure and use multiple proxy servers, which can enhance network flexibility, redundancy, and HA.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI. Azure appears to be the only one that does. The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Make Instana Agent removal completely clean. Currently, there is no uninstaller when performing Static install, so differences remain in the registry.

When instana agent is installed statically on windows, updates and writes are made to the windows registry when start.bat is used, which cannot be removed.This is because there is no uninstaller for static installations. Enterprise-grade customers...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Windows Agent should be able to use AWS sensor

Windows Agent should be able to use AWS sensor - as per the documentation, AWS sensor can be used only with Linux. The customer's environment is based on Windows, so now he needs to deploy another VM based on Linux which will casue additional cost.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Improving Agent - Repo Mechanism

Improving Agent - Repo Mechanism When there is a service outage in our internal repo (Nexus) that our dynamic Instana agents used, Instana agents are directly affected by this situation and their host discovery is disabled. We have started working...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add support for Memory allocation rate for .NET Core, Java, PHP, Ruby

The Instana profiling documentation states for which technologies Instana currently supports Memory allocation rate (Golang, Node.js, Python). The following are missing .NET Core, Java, PHP, Ruby. Link to documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

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