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My subscriptions: Instana

Instana (k3s-pods) CPU and MEMORY reservation(requests) at startup is much too high in relation to the real utilization. Results in high number of CPU/MEM at startup which is not used in running state. (Expensive resources)

We are using the self-hosted Instana Standard edition (k3s). More than once we have problems with messages like too less CPU to startup (pending pods). Several times we added CPU but what we see is that when it is running in production the utiliza...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

Infrastructure linking for MaxScale proxy mariadb

The proxy (MaxScale) operates between the application and the MariaDB instances, preventing Instana from correlating database spans with infrastructure entities. Thus, a MaxScale tracer/integration is necessary to facilitate the correlation with M...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 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.
24 days 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

Enable Memory Profiling for .NET Applications

Instana currently provides .NET CPU profiling, but memory-related issues are often equally important when troubleshooting application performance. Adding memory profiling for .NET would help identify memory leaks, excessive allocations, object ret...
28 days ago in Instana / .NET Under review

Selective Java Profiling and Namespace-Aware Monitoring for Kubernetes Workloads

Enhance Instana Java Profiling to support selective profiling and analysis at the Kubernetes Namespace, Application, Service, and Deployment levels, along with Package-, Class-, and Method-level profiling insights. This would enable customers to f...
22 days ago in Instana / Agent / Java Under review

Support for Gemma 4 model on vLLM

Dear colleagues, we have a customer, they use Gemma‑4‑26B‑A4B‑IT and are trying to integrate Instana with GEMM A4. Naturally, it is not OpenAI-style content array blocks LLM. So they try to use workaround with vLLM framework. Would be nice if we g...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

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...
14 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Improve maintenance windows to see if more than one window is active for a specific resource.

Weeknight maintenance window Sunday-Friday 20.00-05:00 Weekend maintenance window Saturday & Sunday whole days Both these maintenance windows have the same scope. The problem occurs when one maintenance window expires and we get incidents crea...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert Under review

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