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Provide a comprehensive and correct sensor version/release/tag list for a static agent package

Hi, While debugging some .NET tracing issue a constant source of confusion and irritation was/is the versioning and tagging system. Each part of the agent has at least one independent version or release number which is not listed in a comprehensiv...
2 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Java tracer should provide data masking capability for log message  

Instana captures the application log messages at error or warning level. This application log messages are quite useful and essential element for problem determination. But some application may includes PII information in its log messages and in f...
2 days ago in Instana / Java Submitted

Create a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM SevOne and associated SevOne platform components

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM SevOne that provides native monitoring for the broader SevOne platform, including SevOne NMS core services , SevOne Data Insight , and, where deployed alongside SevOne, related reporting...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Please build a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift.

We request IBM to develop a dedicated Instana sensor for IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (CP4AIOps) running on Red Hat OpenShift. At present, we use Instana K8Sensor together with the Instana agent to monitor OpenShift and workloads running on it, includi...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Sensor support for opensearch application

I am working with potential customer verizon. customer's application team is looking to monitor opensearch application which is not supported by Instana officially. They are keen to monitor this and we have suggested to try elastic search sensor w...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Mute alerts through "Application Perspective" as scope in Maintenance Window of Instana

Instana Maintenance Window has scope called "Application Perspective" where in the document says it mutes the alerts but when connected with product team, they say the feature hasn't been implemented. The synthetic tests provide the ability to be ...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Improve stanctl down behavior

We used stanctl down and rebooted. After system start gateway-controller and gateway pods were running. Then executed stanctl down again and got the following error: root@instanak3s1:~# stanctl down Do you want to shut down the Instana cluster? : ...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Common Submitted

creating log level alerts directly from infra tab

in the log maps it would be easier to create logs directly from clicking logs to alert on , as smart alerts just give us the number of http calls .. we need log alerting
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

worloads of particular hosts and their health/status

within a zone of hosts , it would be easier to select major hosts and group them together to check the status and health oh those hosts. i did not see that except for the concept of application services, we need a infra pov.
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted

Passing the descriptive body in the alert mail.

in the mail, we dont see the descriptive condition of the alert , just the alert name.. it would be easier if we could identify the issue from the alert mail.
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted