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Kubernetes

Smart Alert based on memory or CPU usage

We have already the possibility to create smart alerts based on the ratio between usage and limits or usage and request, but there is not an option to create an smart alert based on a static amount of memory MB or CPU cores. So lets say, create an...
24 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Needs more information

Automatically onboard new OpenShift namespaces

When new application namespaces are created in OpenShift, an agent restart is required for them to be recognized before instrumentation activity will commence. In an OpenShift cluster with 47 nodes, agent restarts can be a disruptive operation. I ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Planned for future release

Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes

Monitor cpu and memory for sidecar container (defined under initContainer)

starting kubernets 1.33, pods can have containers defined in two ways:- traditional .spec.containers - under initContainers with restartPolicy: Always. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ " Note: In this example,...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Allow for exclusion of k8s platform metrics by namespace

Today, APM mode can be disabled for whole k8s namespaces. However, metric data collection for basic namespace stats (at the platform level) is always collected. Sometimes customers use name spaces as a build or temporal environment with highly ela...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor Planned for future release

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-...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 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...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Planned for future release

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