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need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows, ticket support Request #28566
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Tracing 'Send Email' actions

"Should we see emails sent by our java apps using springs Java mail sender? (I am missing outgoing Emails inside the trace or the email-server as an unmonitored system / host)"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 0 Not under consideration

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime

Please add the ability for Profiling IBM J9 runtime
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Full support for Spring Integration framework within Java tracer

Currently, Spring Integration is not a fully supported framework. Some of the calls are supported, but not all.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Tracing 0 Future consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Signing Instana agent images

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