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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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Document sizing calculation for Instana datastores

Dear colleagues, Customer wants to be able to plan Instana datastores size to cover load from a set of new managed devices. Please consider document the sizing procedure. Thank you
1 day ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
2 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

At ALSAC we make extensive use of NetBrain to monitor our Network. It would be great if we could bring that data into Instana to add additional context to incidents.

Including data from the network domain would enable us to see relevant context if we have issues in our infrastructure. If we could achieve this we feel that we could resolve some of our incidents more quickly
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
2 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Add Support for Play Framework 3.0

We have upgraded to Play Framework 3.0 in our application and now the Instana monitoring no longer shows application metrics. We are aware that the supported Frameworks list only shows support up to Play 2.8: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-ob...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Availability Check for SAP Non ABAP Systems (Convergent Charging, BO Systems, SAP Web Dispatcher, and so on)

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored For Convergent Charging Systems: SAP CC Instance Availability High GC heap usage It would be helpful if Instana could execute Powershell scripts and evaluate the corresponding status of the ...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Availability Check of an SAP JAVA NetWeaver Instance and the necessary metrics

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored: Java System Availability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<Port>>/startPage) Java-System HTTP-Avilability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<P...
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need Not Synchronizing / Suspect state metrics in MS SQL events.

Hi Team, We need metrics for MSSQL Database went Not Synchronizing / Suspect state in Instana events.
about 10 hours ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

schedule alerts or events on certain days and times. For example: an event is executed only on Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm

Have the option to set the time period in which the alert or event should be executed (as an idea perhaps it is the opposite of maintenance windows)
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Needs more information