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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

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.
28 minutes 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

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...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Submitted

Event auto-closing though the threshold is satisfied

When an event is generated for breaching the threshold condition, event is auto-closed by Instana when there is network issue/agent not reporting data. Events should not be auto closed until Instana determines that the issue is fixed and threshold...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review

1.Add Report tab on Instana Webconsole for report creation and extraction . 2 Add schedule option for Report and Dashboard

We don't see any option to create Report , schedule and extract .Also don't see option for Dashboard schedule and extract Please Help to enhance Instana Webconsole with below suggestions. 1.Add Report tab on Instana Webconsole for report creation ...
12 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Automatically discover, list, and monitor all operating system processes running on a host

Background and current limitation Please enhance IBM Instana so that it automatically discovers all operating system processes running on a host and provides a complete process list with key resource metrics, without requiring administrators to ma...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Critical OTEL Connectors missing in IDOT

Current IDOT v1.320.3 which is latest and stable, we see there are no connectors available to use for transforming processed data into metrics. >instana-otelcol.exe components >connectors: [] It is helpful to have the below connectors to be ...
4 days ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

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