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Monitoring/compatibility issue: jvm_attach_generic - part of magic xpi monitoring

As per the customer- The host agent cannot attach correctly to this Java Virtual Machine. Therefore, this process will not be traced. Refer to the host agent logs for more information as to why the attachment failed. The host agent will try to con...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 6 Not under consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

an option to send PDF export for Dashboards by email and a schedule this email

adding an option to Instana to export the dashboards and send it by email to non-Instana users. this will be helpful to share dashboards with managers, stakeholders and non technical team. also adding the option to schedule this report to send a m...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Display all Message Volumes

Currently it is possible to view the volume of data that is processed via Integration Servers in Analyse Infrastructure at a Flow Level. I believe it would be beneficial if it was possible to expand this on to the Customer Dashboards to provide a ...
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Node Status

We have recently onboarding our Openshift Cluster to Instana for infra monitoring. Today we faced an issue where a node was not in Ready state and hence it generated a lot of incidents related to the Pods in that node. We managed to find the event...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

DNS Sensor

Hello Can we monitor DNS server on linux and windows with these metrics : Availability, Performance, Resolution Quality, Thread count, Query rate (QPS), Recursive vs authoritative query ratio, Cache hit ratio, Cache eviction rate, Negative caching...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Planned for future release

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration