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Instana

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.
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

Provide a complete machine-readable image inventory for each Instana Custom Edition release

Problem Customers with controlled or revision-safe deployment processes need to know the complete set of container images required for a specific Instana Custom Edition release before deployment. The rendered Helm manifests do not provide the full...
15 minutes ago in Instana / Backend Enablement Submitted

Expose JBoss WAR Deployment Status as an Event and Alertable Metric

Instana currently displays the status of JBoss WAR deployments (OK/Failed) in the Web Deployments section, but this status cannot be used for alerting. We would like Instana to expose the WAR deployment status as a metric, event, or health signal ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

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...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Add a SELinux policy for the Linux Instana agent

Currently the Instana agent rpm package does not ship a SELinux policy. This can create some issues depending on the host configuration. Moreover, if restorecon is run on the Instana agent directory, it will prevent the agent from running. A good ...
3 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

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...
5 days 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.
12 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

SNC is added as a SAP ABAP connector.

Due to security requirements, remote monitoring of SAP instances must be adjusted from JCo to SNC.
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Improve Air-Gapped Package Integrity Validation and Download Experience

Air-gapped deployments often involve multiple transfer steps and intermediaries, each introducing potential risks. In real-world environments, packages may be downloaded through slow or unreliable proxies, transferred via USB drives, copied throug...
13 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 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 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted