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Instana

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Self-recovery in case of OOM error to improve reliability of the instana agent service

Background Instana agent has default JAVA heap as follows: JAVA_MIN_MEM=64mexport JAVA_MIN_MEMJAVA_MAX_MEM=160mexport JAVA_MAX_MEM Despite setting more than 3 times the heap size for JAVA_MAX_MEM (eg. 512m) over the nominal memory usage (eg. avera...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Webmethods 5.1 support

Our customer ISBANK wants to have webmethods 5.1 to be supported.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Support PagerDuty PD-CEF (Severity)

Currently when instana sends even details to PD, it lacks critical information like severity and uses a non-standard format. Ideally Instana alerts to PD conform to https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/pd-cef and include severity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Version Tagging for agent and sensor

We want to have a version tag on the agent as well as for the sensors. At the moment agents have the version latest or a uuis. Also there is the boot version what does not have any functionality.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
11 months ago in Instana / API-C / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
11 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Is a defect

Log message body information sent via OpenTelemetry

Forwarding Golang and Nodejs application logs which are deployed in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to Instana agent or Instana backend via fluentbit using OpenTelemetry exporter
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 7 Not under consideration

Create API to purge data for a given agent/host

The agent on our Instana backend host got switched from Infrastructure mode to APM mode and cause the system to consume more than 100 GB of data over the course of just a few days. We switched it back off, but now we are stuck with all this data w...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Is a defect

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration