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[GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
3 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana: Add a 'Maintenance-Aware' filter/toggle to the Events View to hide muted events"

Problem Statement Currently, when a Maintenance Window is active, Instana correctly suppresses notifications (Alerting Channels). However, the Events view continues to display all triggered events regardless of the maintenance status. During large...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Submitted

If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
12 days ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Instana Deployment on OpenShift Must Comply with RH ACS Policies — or Provide Clear Exceptions

When deploying Instana on OpenShift, the deployment should comply with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RH ACS) policies. If full compliance is not technically feasible, Instana must provide transparent explanations of the gaps and rationale, so...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Under review

Git proxy functionality on backend for agents in DMZs

Hi, When we install agents in production they are not allowed to connect to the internal Github to receive their configuration. Gitops is only possible if the requests could be routed through the backend. Any change in production also needs a long...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Future consideration

Add Instana to RedHat ODF sizer

Dear colleagues, please consider adding Instana to RedHat ODF sizer: https://sizer.ocs.ninja/ Thank you
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Planned for future release