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Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

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...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't been set for the database. We would rather there be an error stating the configuration has not been setup instead of trying to login as root.

We have MySQL hosts and instrumented with Instana. However, when I click on the database in the available database, it is showing error: Access denied. Instana trying to log into databases as "root@localhost" when the configuration.yaml hasn't bee...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent 1 Submitted

instana saas hosted agent to support aws emr serverless plarform

need to add aws emr serveress platform. it is not supprted based on following link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-installing-configuring-serverless
25 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Collect WebSphere PMI metrics in z/OS Instana host agent

The Instana host agent in Linux can collect WebSphere PMI metrics of the JDBC connection pool (PoolSize, WaitingThreadCount, UseTime, WaitTime, etc.). This function is missing in the z/OS host agent even with Omegamon integration. Customers requir...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z 2

Request for Multi-Domain Compatibility for SharePoint Environments in Instana

Instana currently lacks support for monitoring SharePoint environments spread across multiple domains, which is essential for BWI’s infrastructure. BWI operates a complex, multi-domain SharePoint setup, and without this feature, they cannot captur...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists