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Agent Installation - Can provide an option to over-write the default `/tmp/.instana` folder PATH location to a path of the customers choice

While enabling Java Virtual threads Customer lost tracing of event calls. Further debugging with Instana support team, they found that the issue is that Instana is losing its temporary files staged in `/tmp/.instana/*` folder. As per Instana suppo...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Option to stop auto resolve events or smart alerts.

Having the ability to disable auto-resolution for smart alerts or events would provide greater control over how they are closed. For example, if I want HTTP 500 smart alerts to remain unresolved until I've added all the case notes, gathered necess...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Future consideration

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Add support for X.509 certificate-based authentication in the MariaDB sensor for Instana.

Currently, the Instana MariaDB sensor does not support SSL or X.509 certificate-based authentication. Our customer(BWI) uses X.509 authentication for all database access, and despite following the documented configuration steps, the sensor fails t...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

More than one subscription in a one Cloud Service Agents

In the documentation there is a issue to use one single agent for each Azure subscription as we are able to create a Reading Service Accounts for the whole Azure Tenant and have many subscrioptions; will it possible to configure an agent in order ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Create simplified alternative automated solution (Watsonx?) for managing database credentials in agent configuration.yaml file in large dynamic environments.

>During Adobe Instana POC customer provided feedback that the Instana agent configuration that is specific to Adobe's environment seems complex, time consuming, and cumbersome: Create simplified alternative automated solution for managing datab...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Native monitoring and Tracing for RUST

Collection of metrics, traces, and context-rich events from Rust-based services, bringing full-stack observability to one of the fastest-growing ecosystems in modern development. Rust is increasingly being adopted for building high-performance, re...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted