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Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Mount Point monitoring for Windows

We need to monitor Infrastructure metrics for Mount points in Windows.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Use Agent based App Java Profiling based on Environment Variable value

Introduction The Instana Agent offers the feature of Profiling Java Applications to find Performance Issues inside the service execution and gives a good output/hin on the code/method level. This can only be set inside the agent config globally fo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect

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...
over 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Specify request & limits of pod Leader Elector

In https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/blob/main/instana-agent/values.yaml the Instana agent has defined cpu & memory requests and limits, see line 89.However, for the leader elector there are none. As a consequence the leader elector takes...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 7 Functionality already exists