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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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AzureApp service

As we could see, your Azure App Services are discovered and we are able to see the metrics. You were missing the tracing so we did the troubleshooting for that. We could see that our InstanaProfiler is in place and after checking the logs, there a...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Is a defect

Create API to purge data for a given agent/host

The agent on our Instana backend host got switched from Infrastructure mode to APM mode and cause the system to consume more than 100 GB of data over the course of just a few days. We switched it back off, but now we are stuck with all this data w...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Is a defect

Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

Trigger alerts depending on several events linked with an AND

We currently use offline events in a static JBoss environment to trigger an incident at the control centre. Unfortunately, agent updates, for example, lead to the agents being switched offline in extreme cases. It would be very helpful if offline ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 3 Is a defect

Grace Period "None" Option

I set up an event to detect JVM Offline incidents and set it as a critical condition, when this is detected an alert is raised and sent to our Teams channel for my team to react to. Following a critical alert we get a grace period alert which is n...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Is a defect

Support of Springboot newer versions (from 2.7.0)

Hello, We recently updated our springboot framework to 2.7.0 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version of springboot shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Is a defect

Create Application Perspective stuck in creating page if the user doesn't have Access to the APP

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Is a defect

Smart Alert Weekly seasonality baseline not working

No description provided
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Is a defect