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OKD Support for Instana

Our customer SGK have extensive OKD workloads and monitoring them is extremely important.
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage Submitted

Mapping dependency/topology between application services and MS SQL DBs when DBs are monitored remotely

We want to map dependencies/topology between application services and Microsoft SQL Server databases where SQL is configured using remote monitoring method (not local agent on DB host). Currently, the application-to-database correlation is not vis...
3 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

Add cluster name mapping/aliasing support to Instana ArgoCD sensor for OpenShift GitOps compatibility

Problem Statement When using OpenShift GitOps operator with Instana's ArgoCD sensor, there is a mismatch between the cluster name defined in ArgoCD (in-cluster - the default managed by OpenShift GitOps) and the actual Kubernetes cluster name in In...
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Enable Instana AI Features with Customer‑Managed LLMs

Currently, Instana already provides valuable capabilities such as incident summarization, which are extremely useful for daily operations and troubleshooting. However, the integration with large language models is tightly coupled to IBM Watson, an...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations Future consideration

Configure idle session timeout beyond 8 hours and preserve URL context

Engineers and SREs routinely keep multiple Instana tabs open simultaneously during incident investigations, feature rollout, and long running analyses. The current 8-hour idle session timeout forces a logout for anyone who isn't actively interacti...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Improve visibility and clarity for “Unidentified Entity” Events in Instana

Problem Description In Instana, some events appear with the entity labeled as “Unidentified Entity”, even though the platform is still able to resolve and navigate to the correct underlying entity (e.g., host) when the user clicks the link. This c...
3 days ago in Instana / Common Submitted

Need better handling of mistakes in the mqtracingexit.conf file for MQ tracing

Minor syntax errors within the mqtracingexit.conf file cause the MQ Tracing to file. There appears to be sensitivity to whether or not there are spaces between the parameters, the equal sign, and the value. This is related to support case TS022198...
3 days ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Failed to detect JVM failure

There is no way to detect JVM failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after JVM failure. However, several issues with this: 1. The offline eve...
4 days ago in Instana / Java Under review

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Co Stop (%CSTP) metric visibility and alerting on Co Stop peaks over time

We presented the vSphere Agent for the customer and ability monitor the ESXi environmet, After presentation the customer required to see the co stop alerting on Instana before giving us the go t implement the solution. This is quite important for ...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted