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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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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
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Support Instana backend on VMware Tanzu

Our customer BWI just closed a 5-year 35 mio contract with us which includes Instana. When we reach production we will probably have thousands of agents installed and the German Armed Forces (which BWI serves) will add another few thousand agents....
2 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI. Azure appears to be the only one that does. The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the ...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
17 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
3 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
15 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Enhance Release markers by providing a release duration capability

Please see: https://instana.github.io/openapi/#tag/Releases Currently, "Create release" require a mandatory Start parameter. Subsequent "Update release" also require a mandatory Start parameter which overwrites the existing value. It would be good...
10 days ago in Instana 0 Submitted

SNA application support for Instana on z

Instana cannot trace SNA application.Please add the support to trace by Instana, or provide the method to trace it by the customizing application programs, such as adding the tracing subroutine.
10 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
15 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Show status change history of MFT transfers

Our customer needs to track their MFT file transfers and they need to have insights in when file transfers change their status from Started to Progress and finally Successful or Failed. So we need some kind of table that lists all the status chang...
15 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

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