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    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....
    about 1 hour ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    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,...
    9 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    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...
    5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    16 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month 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 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Under review

    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

    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...
    4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 1 Submitted

    Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

    Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
    12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

    Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

    to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
    over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 5 Not under consideration

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