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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 29, 2026

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Capability to include processes (whitelisting) to monitor in the agent configuration.yaml

Hi,

This customer has the challenge to monitor servers where most processes should not be monitored or traced. Therefore a whitelisting approach (explicitly name the instances to be monitored) would be the best solution. Selective monitoring via environment variables seemed to be the way to go but there is challenge #2.

On Windows cluster systems individual (per process) environment variables are deleted upon start of a service. It is not possible to set non-system-wide env-vars, hence selective whitelisting doesn't work.

The only feasible way is to use the configuration.yaml but this allows only for process exclusion (blacklisting). An include section would be the solution here. It would also be possible then to adjust the monitoring using a GitOps approach instead of a process intensive addition of environment variables.

A regex capabiity would be perfect, but a simple "iclude when contains" suffices.

Thank you


Idea priority High

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