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Instana agent is not supported for K3S kubernete platform. Since this is a slim version and can deployed on IOT platform, we have seen customer are using this in Production

Instana agent is not supported for K3S kubernete platform. Since this is a slim version and can deployed on IOT platform, we have seen customer are using this in Production. This can be good candidate to consider for implemented and we have tested...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor the custom process and change the process name based on the different arguments

This feature request is to monitor the custom process end to end. Basically the running batch process on the server when we have requests to run different batch processes some on a particular schedule and some on an adhoc basis. So, when the batch...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System

Support installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

To avoid disk getting full due to agent retrying failed attachements (Re : INSTANA-I-1077)

Although INSTANA-I-1077 has become "Not under consideration", we'd like you to reconsider by checking our new comment (explanation on our purpose of the request). Thanks. "Hi, Henning. Thank you for your time for INSTANA-I-1077. Before you close t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration