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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
3 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

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3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Test Powershell support for Actions Beta

We have been told that Powershell should in theory work on windows hosts for the actions beta, but it's unclear how thoroughly this has been tested.
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Instana's Terraform Strategy

As user of Terraform and utilising: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/gessnerfl/instana/latest/docs We want to know how Instana is about to support this natively, and what are the plans/roadmap in regards to Terraform.
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Lack of Request & Response Samples in API Document

We need "Request Samples" and "Response Samples" for all methods in the Instana API documentation on https://instana.github.io/openapi/ For example, the sample request body for POST and PUT methods, the responses returned by the methods etc. Then ...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered

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