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Kubernetes

Allow distnguishing between Terminating and Running pods

Kubernetes pods in Terminating state are expected — they're being shut down and will disappear shortly. Alerts fired against them (e.g. for CPU, memory, liveness, or availability issues) are almost always false positives. There is currently no DFQ...
22 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Add kubenetes.node.annotation TagDefinition for Global Custom Payload Catalog

Customer wants to select kubernetes node annotations tag for global custom payloads which does not exist currently.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Openshift HCP Monitoring

We can not Monitor Kubernetes control plane components, such as the API server, controller manager, scheduler, and etcd, run in a separate management cluster like Openshift HostedControlPlane setup.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Namespace-Scoped Agent configuration

Based on my research, it is not possible to provide different configurations for agents deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. Currently, the Instana Agent operates primarily on a cluster-wide configuration.We propose/request a feature to enable differ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Future consideration

Monitoring health of OpenShift Operators

Monitor the health of the OpenShift operator deployment(s) notable machine-config operator The output of command oc get co is an example of monitoring deployment health. This information would be useful to get to deeper root cause analysis for app...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Cordoned / SchedulingDisabled node

We are monitoring our Kubernetes environment on Instana. We encountered an issue where the kubernetes nodes went into cordoned / SchedulingDisabled state. The actual state of the node is "Ready, SchedulingDisabled". We want to set up monitoring on...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Future consideration

Capture Persistent Volume claim (pvc) storage I/O metrics

we are looking for monitor PVC throughput, IOPS, read/write operations, or other storage I/O metrics for Persistent Volume Claims. TS022752586 - Case confirmed as of today instana do not have this functionality.
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Future consideration

ARM support for IDOT

Please provide ARM support for IDOT. Instana agent already supports arm
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Future consideration

Openshift Cluster Monitoring - Namepsace specifc

We need Cluster Registration & Metadata for specific namespaces excluding node information in Kubernetes Infra. The OpenShift platform team will not grant cluster-wide permissions (ClusterRole) required to deploy the Instana k8s-sensor via Ins...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Under review

Add cluster name mapping/aliasing support to Instana ArgoCD sensor for OpenShift GitOps compatibility

Problem Statement When using OpenShift GitOps operator with Instana's ArgoCD sensor, there is a mismatch between the cluster name defined in ArgoCD (in-cluster - the default managed by OpenShift GitOps) and the actual Kubernetes cluster name in In...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted