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Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Partner access that removes access to see fully loaded costs and work out the enterprise discount

Within my client they work extensively with external entities [TCS, CTS, WIPRO etc] to manage their infrastructure. They do not want to allow these partners to see the full costs in cloudability that are shown in the dashboarding and insights pane...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Other Tracers 4 Not under consideration

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Memory Leak Reboot Task - Schedule Control

Hi Folks, I was told in response to a support case that I should raise this issue as a possible improvement. This would be to allow control of the scheduling of the Memory Leak Reboot Task as there appears to be no way to control when this task is...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Carbon calculation updates - factor in flexibility/history archive or rebaseline for customer operational processes

The recent update to the Carbon calculations in CLDY has highlighted an improvement area that would help with customer adoption. Customers who baselined using the previous calcs would have seen their numbers jump 4x with the recent change to the c...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Make Instana Agent API available on IPV4

We have a use case where we remote monitoring a database and need to access the instana agent API to generate events/changes/incidents but the API port is only available to the localhost so we cannot access it remotely. Making the APi port availab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

MultiCurrencyService - have latest conversion table at top of list ie: date descending order

When a user is working with conversion tables it would be a better solution to have the conversion tables in date descending order with the latest at the top.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Planned for future release

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration