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Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
20 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Add Native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Support for instana-agent-k8sensor in Instana Helm Chart

The Instana Helm chart for instana-agent-k8sensor currently does not support native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) configuration. During a recent incident (Case TS020011638), a memory usage spike occurred post-AMI update, reaching 140% of the co...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Would like logging in audit log for when an agent is changed from info to debug

Would like for when someone changes the agent log level from info to debug to be logged in the audit trail
24 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Instana should display the same choprehensive view of OpenTelemetry-collected metrics as it does for our native Instana Agent collected metrics

When viewing standard screens in the Instana UI the same views and components should be displayed no matter how the metrics are collected. For example on the Platforms -> Kubernetes screen when you view a cluster where the Instana Agent is coll...
25 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
27 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Cloning of Application Perspectives

We are in the process of creating Application Perspectives based on the namespaces in the cluster. Each cluster has 100's of namespaces and each namespaces has services ranging from 5-15. We are creating application perspectives at a service level...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

JIRA Archive functionality in TargetProcess

Jira has implemented Archiving functionality which works as a "soft delete" and makes the item view only. For synced items, you are able to modify the TargetProcess entity, and the change is not applied to the Jira item. Additionally, JIRA achieve...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Submitted

Instana ServiceNow Service Graph Connector API

Instana currently integrates with ServiceNow for forwarding the events. However, there is no capability available to integrate with the CMDB to sync data. One of our customer is looking for an Observability solution for their IT Infrastructure (50...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

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