Improve Blacklist command to include wildcards or RegEx when stopping Instana from instrumenting a process

The current Blacklist process only supports complete parameters.  This is useful but fails to account for processes that contain only commonly used parameter or common processes that can refer to different paths or have different installation locations across an enterprise.  In current environments not supporting wildcards or regular expressions almost seems like a bug when adding should only be loading a module and a few extra keystrokes.

The published option of adding an env "export INSTANA_IGNORE=true" to any product you don't wish to be instrumented seems presumptuous to ask other teams and applications to make config changes across 1000s of hosts when this should be available on the agent config. 

Examples:

bigserver1

UrbanCode Deploy - Installing agents

search terms and results:

  entity.jvm.args:"*com.urbancode.air.agent.CompactAgentLauncher*" -- nonProd = 98, prod = 91
  entity.jvm.args:"*UCD/agent/lib/air-agent.jar*" -- nonProd = 80, prod = 54
  entity.jvm.args:"*-Djava.security.properties=/opt/IBM/UCD/agent/conf/agent/java.security*" -- nonProd = 166, prod = 110

Process:

lzadmin  9634204        1   0   Feb 15      - 140:29 /opt/IBM/UCD/JRE/bin/java

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-Dconsole.encoding=UTF-8
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/IBM/UCD/agent/var/temp
-Djava.security.properties=/opt/IBM/UCD/agent/conf/agent/java.security
-Djdk.tls.client.protocols=TLSv1.2
-Dcom.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultTLS=true
-Dcom.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultProtocol=TLSv12
-Xmx256m
-Dagent.mode=start
-Dagent.pidfile=nopidfile
-cp /opt/IBM/UCD/agent/lib/air-agent.jar:/opt/IBM/UCD/agent/lib/launcher.jar
com.urbancode.air.agent.CompactAgentLauncher

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otherbigserver1:

UrbanCode Deploy - Installing agents

process:
 

lzadmin   415824       1  0 May23 ?        00:52:07 /opt/IBM/UCD/JRE/bin/java

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
-Dconsole.encoding=UTF-8
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/IBM/UCD/var/temp
-Djava.security.properties=/opt/IBM/UCD/conf/agent/java.security
-Xmx256m -Dagent.mode=start
-Dagent.pidfile=nopidfile
-cp /opt/IBM/UCD/lib/air-agent.jar:/opt/IBM/UCD/lib/launcher.jar
com.urbancode.air.agent.CompactAgentLauncher
 

BMC Control-M/Agent

search terms and results:

entity.jvm.args:"*ctm/exe/ag-app.jar*" -- nonProd = 301, prod = 134
entity.jvm.args:"*/controlmusr1/ctm/exe/ag-app.jar*" -- nonProd = 180, prod = 76
entity.jvm.args:"*ctm/exe/libBMCJW.so*" -- nonProd = 407, prod = 237

( controlmusr1 - can be multiple names or user IDs depending on region or environment. )

root     2129854       1  0 May27 ?        00:39:02 /controlmusr1/openjdk-11.0.23.x86_64//bin/java

-Xmx256m
-XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:+CrashOnOutOfMemoryError
-agentpath:/controlmusr1/ctm/exe/libBMCJW.so
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Doverride.default.services=
-Dspring.profiles.active=tcp
-DCTMAG.CONFIG.DBGLVL=0
-Dctm.logs.dir=/controlmusr1/ctm/proclog
-Dlogging.config=/controlmusr1/ctm/data/logback.xml
-Dctm.data.dir=/controlmusr1/ctm/data
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-Dstdout=/controlmusr1/ctm/proclog/agjstd_2127996-2026-05-27.0.tmp
-DLIMIT_LOG_VERSIONS=8
-DLIMIT_LOG_FILE_SIZE=10
-jar /controlmusr1/ctm/exe/ag-app.jar