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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 ...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations Submitted

File based monitoring to check if the file exists

Currently the file plugin in Instana agent does not have the capability to check if a file exist or not. For critical monitoring scenarios, it is important to check if a file exist or not and alert for production environment.
2 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Equals (=) Operator in Smart Alert Threshold

With in the Smart Alerts, for any metrics that holds multiple values and we need alert for only one value and this functionality needs equals ( = ) operator which is not available in Smart Alerts. Having equals operator available for thresholds wi...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Custom Plugin Monitoring Attributes unavailable in Events & Alerts

When windows os services are added to monitoring using host plugin as below, it discovers service name, service state but these important parameters are not available to be used in Events and Alert. Service State is available as metric to create a...
3 days ago in Instana / Alert 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.
4 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes Submitted

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...
4 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 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...
4 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Allow administrators and users to configure the default Fast Query Mode behavior in Unbounded Analytics

Problem Statement When users click Analyze Calls, the resulting Unbounded Analytics search automatically opens with Fast Query Mode enabled. Many users assume the results displayed represent the complete dataset and are unaware that Fast Query Mod...
5 days ago in Instana / SRE Submitted

Native Kubernetes/OpenShift Secret Management for Kafka Sensor Credentials

Problem Statement Kafka environments frequently require SSL/mTLS authentication using truststores, keystores, and associated passwords. Security best practices prohibit storing these credentials in plaintext configuration files. Customers attempti...
5 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance Submitted

Support Multi-Cluster Kafka Monitoring from a Single Instana Agent

Problem Statement Organizations commonly deploy multiple Kafka clusters within a single OpenShift or Kubernetes environment for production, non-production, business unit separation, or regional isolation. Today, the Instana Kafka sensor does not p...
5 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted

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