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Add Smart Alert Support for Container “Memory Usage Percentage” Metric

We would like to submit an enhancement request on behalf of Sobeys, who are actively using Instana to monitor their containerized applications running on Kubernetes/OpenShift. Enhancement Needed Add support for the metric “Container Memory Usage P...
7 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Show "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O

Please add the metric "Memory Working Set Usage %" for CRI-O containers. I am aware that in the Instana UI, I can view the "Memory Working Set Usage %" metric for Containerd containers:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.310?topi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 1 Submitted

Need autotrace-webhook to support instrumentation nginx proxy with custom configs

Hello Team, our customer uses Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy calls to their application. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for most of them. We’ve adjusted autotace-...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

CRI-O Container CPU Usage Percentage

ISBANK wants to retrieve and be able create custom events based on CRI-O Container's CPU usage percentage. For CRI-O Containers, would like to use "cpu.used_percentage" just like "memory.used_percentage". The "cpu.used_percentage" could be calcula...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Add Native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Support for instana-agent-k8sensor in Instana Helm Chart

The Instana Helm chart for instana-agent-k8sensor currently does not support native Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) configuration. During a recent incident (Case TS020011638), a memory usage spike occurred post-AMI update, reaching 140% of the co...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Adding Cluster Operator to monitoring by Instana IBM Kubernetes sensor

It would be very useful to have the ability to monitor the status of Cluster Operators in a Kubernetes cluster. Adding an additional tab to the Kubernetes status (see picture 1) Adding a separate sensor for monitoring Kubernetes Cluster Operators ...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration