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Instana

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Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
5 months ago in Instana 0 Under review

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Functionality already exists

Enhancements in OpenAPI Documentation

Hi Team, Could we enhance the documentation under infrastructure-monitoring/snapshots/ by listing all the available metrics that can be fetched through the API? Currently, the table does not detail the possible metrics users can query, which makes...
5 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

KeyDB Sensor

Customers using KeyDB
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Introduce SFTP as an official source for downloading offline agent assemblies in Instana.

BWI has strict security and integrity regulations for corporate networking. Their secure download service only supports the SFTP protocol, and adding new protocols requires a lengthy approval process. To simplify their operations and adhere to the...
9 months ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Use IBM clickhouse with AWS S3 Service

We would like use AWS S3 Service with Instana clickhouse for warm/cold data to improve cost effectiveness
5 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

add cluster mode enabled redis trace to redis sensor for rails application

support case Case number TS019348227
5 months ago in Instana / Ruby 2 Future consideration

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Allow more flexibility in Instana-agent HelmChart

Hi IBM-Instana team, We use the instana-agent to monitor our services which are running in an air-gapped environment. We have a fully automated pipeline for mirroring images and HelmChart and for wrapping the HelmChart with our custom configuratio...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 4