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Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Expose System I/O Metrics for Alerting and Custom Events in Instana

Instana already shows System I/O metrics on the Host Dashboard (Calls/s, Reads/s, Writes/s, Logical Block Reads/Writes), but these metrics do not appear in the Metrics Selector when creating Custom Events or Alerting rules. We request that these e...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Needs more information

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Needs more information

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Needs more information

Shorter Grace Period for SmartAlerts

Currently, the shortest configurable Grace Period in SmartAlerts is 10 min (a lot longer compared with Custom Events, which have a minimum lapse of 5 sec). We'd like to have shorter Grace Period options when configuring SmartAlerts (5s and up woul...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Compress and store all metrics per day

This functionality provides a correct and reliable comparison of current to historical data (not based on extrapolations). Preserve the results as compressed metrics for all collected data per day. Extract the relevant statistics: count, average, ...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Needs more information

Instana Integration with performance test tools

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Needs more information

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information

Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls. Basically we have added exclusion filter to not alert on these filters, ie HTTP>Call HTTP Path contains ...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information