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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

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Add Cross-Cloud Data Transfer Costs in Workload Planning

In Workload Planning, it would be highly beneficial for customers to have visibility into cross-cloud data transfer costs. For example, if a workload operates across both AWS and Azure, the associated data transfer costs between these clouds shoul...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 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...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Budget Alerts - Continued Alerting

Ability to keep getting alerting, even after you hit threshold. Allow for continued notification, past the current 2 options of Expect to Exceed and Exceeded. AWS portal allows for notification for multi % over a set budget. So if I have $1K budge...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

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

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Prevent user to alter configured Budget cap.

We enter budget forecasts every year for each AWS account and Azure subscription in Cloudability. We would like to prevent users from altering configured budget thresholds. If any changes are required, then the Cloudability admin can update the bu...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Not under consideration