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Instana

    Feature Request: Support for Legacy/Alternative MariaDB Authentication Methods in Sensor

    We are requesting a feature update or backward compatibility support regarding the MariaDB Sensor. Following recent internal changes to the sensor code, our current environment is encountering errors which are logged every minute in the Instana ag...
    23 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

    Single place to manage agent configuration

    Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
    5 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

    IBM HTTP tracing module on Linux/ppc64le

    We need to instrument HCL Commerce 9.1.19+ IBM HTTP Server v9.0.5.25, but as of today, this functionality is not enabled. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.315?topic=httpd-tracing-modules#ariaid-title7
    17 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review

    Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

    Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
    2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

    Enable Bidirectional Integration Between Instana and BigPanda

    The current integration approach between Instana and BigPanda is limited to one‑way communication using webhooks, allowing Instana to send or collect data unidirectionally. However, some customers(FIS, TIS, TSYS) require full bidirectional synchro...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

    Select the authentication method at the Instana UI Login

    Instana supports just one authentication method, this of course affects at Login and there is no other way the customer can select a different way to login, basically, if the current authentication method is broken for some reason, the customer ha...
    28 days ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 3 Not under consideration

    Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

    Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
    7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

    API-Based Configuration Export and Import for Backend Configuration Management

    Hi, while defining a staging strategy for a highly regulated banking environment to deploy and run Instana backends, we ran into the challenge how to promote configurations from a dev/staging backend to the production one: Problem Statement As a c...
    20 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

    Ability to turn off Instana Agents via an emergency shutdown switch (API‑Triggered)

    Hi, In certain high‑risk or sensitive operational scenarios, our organisation needs the ability to immediately and remotely turn off all or selected Instana agents. Currently, there is no API-based mechanism to trigger an emergency stop of the age...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

    Improve Custom Service rules in the UI and the backend

    Hi, We need to adjust the service naming for some services as the automatically discovered names are not allowing us to monitor the services in context of the line of business and production environment. Adjustable custom service rules - regex ena...
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

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