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Option to discover newly added services or Agent to Instana

Once applications onboarding to Instana on a daily bases we are looking if we can get notified as and when new service shows up in Instana. This will help us to keep a track on service and host details which got onboarded to Instana.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Add filters/ordering to assignments in detailed view

When a lot of users are assigned to 1 entity it is hard to track the order of adding them or sorting. It will be a good idea to add a sorting like with adding entities.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Filter entities in Quick add by role and project

Currently, when using Quick Add, users see all the entities in the instance, including different terms defined in different projects. It does not appear that these are limited based on what projects the user is assigned to nor what permissions the...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

See which notification box was checked when comment was created

When adding a comment there are checkboxes to notify creator/assigned people. The customer would like to see which option was checked when creating a comment in the history.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

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

"N" Number of agents should be update at once.

If we are changing the mode Auto/On in the com.instana.agent.main.config.UpdateManager.cfg file. The agent will take automatic update. But, The mode should be OFF only, because as per SMBC standards, for any updates we should follow change request...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration