A financial services company wants the Instana agent on a shared application host to collect traces and metrics from their trading platform but completely exclude their internal HR application running on the same host from data collection. Which Instana feature supports this selective per-process monitoring without deploying a separate agent?
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Monitoring Profiles allow administrators to define exactly which technologies, processes, or filesystem paths should be included or excluded from data collection on a per-agent basis. Profiles are assigned to agents via monitoring zones, enabling selective monitoring without requiring separate agent deployments. Exclusion rules in profiles are evaluated before data is sent to the backend.
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Full Explanation
Monitoring Profiles allow administrators to define exactly which technologies, processes, or filesystem paths should be included or excluded from data collection on a per-agent basis. Profiles are assigned to agents via monitoring zones, enabling selective monitoring without requiring separate agent deployments. Exclusion rules in profiles are evaluated before data is sent to the backend. The correct answer is 'Monitoring Profiles with include and exclude rules'. The incorrect options — 'Dynamic Focus Queries applied at the backend', 'Alert Channel scope filters scoped to specific processes', 'Application Perspective exclusion tag rules' — are wrong because they do not align with IBM Instana's architecture or recommended practices for this scenario. Understanding this concept is essential for the Domain 2: Configuration domain of the IBM Instana Observability certification.