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Version Tagging for agent and sensor

We want to have a version tag on the agent as well as for the sensors. At the moment agents have the version latest or a uuis. Also there is the boot version what does not have any functionality.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
11 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Webagent Limit reset - High Business Urgency

We logged an IBM case: TS017640803 for missing data on our website monitoring (EUM). We discovered 2 things that need attention and IBM requested that we load an aha-idea for resetting limits on the webagent. Currently, there is a limit on the pag...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0

Create API to purge data for a given agent/host

The agent on our Instana backend host got switched from Infrastructure mode to APM mode and cause the system to consume more than 100 GB of data over the course of just a few days. We switched it back off, but now we are stuck with all this data w...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Is a defect

Add CSP Report Endpoint

In order to maintain and improve the quality of the Content-Security-Policy we currently need to offer a self hosted solution for the CSP-Reports* To not have to implement a endpoint on ourself, where to send CSP Reports, an Endpoint provided by I...
11 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

PromQL capable Grafana Datasource plugin

Overhaul and/or extend the Grafana Plugin, or create a completely new Datasource to provide Instana metrics which can be consumed via PromQL.
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to add Dynamic Custom payloads to Alerts

Need to be able to add Dynamic custom payloads to an Alert. Currently, within Instana, you can add Dynamic custom payloads globally. But many parameters don't make sense to add globally. For example, I don't want to add an MQ Queue Name to a java ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Future consideration