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Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Gateway for Message Bus should support additional fields for Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property

If integrating the OMNIbus gateway for message bus with Kafka the property Gate.XMLGateway.MessageKey only supports either the field ServerSerial or ServerName.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/netcoolomnibus/8.0.0?topic=file-properties-command-line-opt...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Future consideration

Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 3 Under review

Request for improvement of EIF Probe Event Format

Environment: Netcool OMNIBUS 8.1, EIF Prove 1.13.0 After updating EIF Prove from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0, some of the triggers went wrong. We figured out that it was caused by APAR( IV03958 , IV75418 ) included in EIF Prove 1.14.0. Since customers has al...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Provide the way to identify the detailed component list of Instana in the console

Now in Instana agent page of the Instana Console, agent bootstrap version ( ex. 1.2.39 ) and agent version ( ex. 2025.10.09.1647 ) is listed for each Instana agent. This combination seems necessary and sufficient, but not. Agent bootstrap version ...
19 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted