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Instana

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...
6 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Metrics not available for Customer Alerts

Built in Events can't be modified and not all metrics available for custom alert configuration. This is a blocker for enterprise wide threshold governance.
12 minutes ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Log SmartAlert Grouping limitation

Currently the log alert grouping is limited to a single dimension. GlobleLife is advanced used and require multi-dimentionsl grouping using Application, environment, host, error type, database, and support team. This will allow them to send the al...
2 minutes ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Instana Dashboard flexibility

Not all metrics available in all dashboard widgets. Dashboard customization is restricted and cannot fully combine business, application, infrastructure and log data in one view. This is critical for the executives to view all in one place.
less than a minute ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Support for FileStatsReceiver under IDOT collector for Windows

The file system can become burdened with high file usage when there are many stale files or missing files. The FileStatsReceiver helps identify stale or missing files in the system.
6 minutes ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry Submitted

Support for WindowsPerfCountersReceiver

GlobeLife has extensive Windows systems in their environment. IBM provided IDOT Collector for Window platform. Current IDOT doesn't seem to support WindowsPerfCountersReceives. To get a deeper understanding of the windows platform, this will be es...
less than a minute ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry Submitted

RabbitMQ and Redis span filtering on .net core 9 and above

Hello, Some of our clients want to reduce the data ingestion so they want to filter some span not to post. Especially redis and rabbitmq spans. They use .net 9 running on kubernetes. We need a developping for the filters.
about 9 hours ago in Instana / .NET Submitted

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.
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

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...
19 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review