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Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim built-in metrics and Events

Provide Kubernetes Persistent Volume (PV) and Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) built-in metrics and Events. PV/PVC metrics are essential to monitoring applications storge, however, Instana doesn't provide built-in metrics nor Events to cover the stor...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Delivered

Monitoring K8s PVC Storage space

Hi! We need the ability to monitor storage in Kubernetes as per article: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/ Instana Request #30622 was logged for additional documentation, but stated that it is not possible yet.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Delivered

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Enabling the option of ordering SLOs by status

We would like to have the option to order SLOs by status AND/OR having the change to filter those which have their budget exhausted This feature at the Service Levels panel would make the tools more user-friendly, in my opinion.
12 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

HPA values for a Kubernetes namespace

The customer would like to plot/monitor the HPA values [default CPU based] in Instana.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

Allow for increases in SLI quota for Instana.

We have run into a hard limit for the number of SLIs that are able to be created in Instana. When we asked to have the limit increased, we were told by the Instana engineers that this isn't possible currently. Its a hard coded limit that isn't abl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

Get container info button is available for containerd clusters

In clusters using the docker runtime there is a "container info" button in the UI - on the container details page - which shows environment variable values. This is missing for containerd clusters.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
over 3 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered