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Instana

    Option to Ingest Only Host Metrics on Instana Agents (Disable All Sensors)

    Summary Provide a configuration option to allow Instana Agents to collect only host-level metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network, etc.) while disabling all automatic sensors and application monitoring. This mode should be configurable either: via E...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

    Corporate restrictions require RPM Agent install into a different directory from current default

    Currently, the RPM based installs of Instana are hard coded to /opt/instana/agent on Linux. The customer has a rule that software MUST be installed into a different filesystem "/apps". They are not allowed to install anything into the /opt filesys...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

    Allow multiple config files for the OTEL collector

    As well as the regular tracing and host information collection, the config file contains all the log parsing and processing information for every log file that the collector must work. A customer I am working with who is looking to migrate from IT...
    4 months ago in Instana / Logging 9 Needs more information

    Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

    We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
    9 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Functionality already exists

    Extend Instana Selective Monitoring by technology and process properties

    In its current form, Selective Monitoring requires changes to all applications / processes which should be monitored in an opt-in scenario. Making changes only only in the agent to select applications / processes would keep Instana specific config...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

    Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

    Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
    10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

    Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

    In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
    5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Planned for future release

    Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3

    Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0.3
    11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

    Extend LDAP sensor capability to monitor IBM Security Directory Server 6.4

    Extend LDAP sensor capability to support IBM Security Directory Server 6.4
    11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Future consideration

    Expand & Clarify Documentation for Parentheses and Boolean Logic in Application Perspective Filters

    Teams rely on complex AND/OR/NOT combinations and parentheses in Application Perspective filters to precisely scope services, endpoints, namespaces, and infrastructure. Today, there is no authoritative, detailed documentation on: How parentheses a...
    17 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

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