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Instana

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

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...
18 days ago in Instana / Alert Under review

Instana Filter Inconsistent

IT will help on filtering for important objects, and also having everything grouped in one category would make it clearer and esaier for users to find.
27 days ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

IBM Instana monitoring for Mule Runtime 4.x.

Our enterprise integration platform currently runs on Mule Runtime 4.6.7 and includes critical workloads initiated through HTTP Listeners, Pollers, Schedulers and messaging queues. Instana currently provides infrastructure, JVM and partial generic...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers Under review

Extended Query size in On-Prem Backends

Instana at the moment only collects the first 4KB of a query. Expanding the query capture limit beyond the current 4KB for Self-Hosted Instana deployments would unlock significant value for both customers and our own troubleshooting capabilities. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Instana On Prem Swagger

For Instana SaaS and on-prem backends with internet access, users can rely on the IBM developer portal to browse and try available APIs. However, customers operating in restricted or fully isolated environments do not have that option, which makes...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted Under review

Openshift Cluster Monitoring - Namepsace specifc

We need Cluster Registration & Metadata for specific namespaces excluding node information in Kubernetes Infra. The OpenShift platform team will not grant cluster-wide permissions (ClusterRole) required to deploy the Instana k8s-sensor via Ins...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes Under review

Ability to turn off the server-timing http response header

Hi, during a security test within our organisation the "server-timing" http response header was flagged as it was set on public APIs which should not reveal any hint about internally used technology. As this public API (for a bank) will never be p...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Improve maintenance windows to see if more than one window is active for a specific resource.

Weeknight maintenance window Sunday-Friday 20.00-05:00 Weekend maintenance window Saturday & Sunday whole days Both these maintenance windows have the same scope. The problem occurs when one maintenance window expires and we get incidents crea...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Under review

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