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Status Under review
Workspace Instana
Categories ACE/IIB
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 7, 2025

Change ACE autodiscovery to work for non-running processes

The autodiscovery for ACE currently works by looking for running ACE processes.
Autodiscovery should discover all ACE installations, and all ACE entities (node, integration servers, message flows etc) whether or not they are running at the time.

All should be discovered, and all should be displayed in the backend - showing their status.
Nothing should be removed from the backend unless it is no longer configured on the server.
Also discovery should rerun automatically at intervals to pick up any new instances or remove any which are no longer configured

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Aysha Kanakkovil
    Feb 27, 2026

    Based on the discussion with the HSBC customer, we have decided to revisit this request. Therefore, we are moving it back to “Under Review.”

    Thank you.

  • Admin
    Aysha Kanakkovil
    Feb 6, 2026

    The team has conducted an initial spike and engaged with the infrastructure team to assess feasibility. Following this evaluation, it has been confirmed that it is not possible to display non-running processes on the infrastructure page.

    Based on discussions with the engineering team, all integration servers and message flows are discovered automatically, and their status can be viewed in the Analyse Infrastructure view.

    By design, non-running processes are not displayed in the Host Infrastructure view and are instead available only through the Analyse Infrastructure view. Introducing non-running processes into the Host Infrastructure view would not align with Instana’s current design approach.

  • Guest
    Nov 9, 2025

    I second the above, currently we are looing at Instana as a replacement for ITM that is deployed globally. One of the areas that the Global Support Team use daily is the visibility of the status of MQ availability ie is it running or not...