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Search results: Instana

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Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Need to document workaround when Trend Micro is running on Windows servers

When Trend Micro is installed on Windows servers, it prevents the Instana Agent from running properly and connecting to the Instana backend. The customer had to white list the fully qualified path to the instana agent and instanaPCP.exe processes....
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Modify or Clone / Duplicate "builtin event"

The built event work in most of the cases but for some specific environment some values need to be adjust in order to avoid false positive. Instead of disabling the builtint and create a new one from scratch it would be nice to have a "clone fonct...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Natvie Prometheus support

Instana supports Prometheus in a customised way to transfer and work with Prometheus metrics. Basically, Prometheus metrics can be collected and transferred to Instana. But core features like Metrics Labels do not work with the Instana backend in ...
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 3 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Delivered

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Full support for sensors to run under a non-root account

Regarding IBM APM today: - For various company support and security reasons, we have all the agents running under a non-root account on AIX and Linux hosts with limited sudo setup required. Limited sudo setup in the sense where only dedicated full...
about 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Support the use of kubernetes ServiceAccounts for AWS authorization

Currently the AWS agent can only be deployed on EC2 or ECS. Since we moved to EKS we would like to run the AWS agent inside EKS but without passing credentials to the serivce. The AWS way of doing this would be to assign an IAM role to the Service...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration