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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Instana Agents Installation on FIPS Enabled Hosts

Instana agent installation fails on hosts that have FiPS enabled. The only way that we found to install on these hosts is manually using the following command: sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest Since this command is bypassing a security meas...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Availability Check of an SAP JAVA NetWeaver Instance and the necessary metrics

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored: Java System Availability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<Port>>/startPage) Java-System HTTP-Avilability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<P...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

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 ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 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 ...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

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