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k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Please upkeep security of the product, by making available newer priv protocol AES. DES which is the only option available now, has been deprecated by IEEE framework. Consquently removed from linux OS, net-snmp , and openssl 3.x

This is necessary for product to run with non vulnerable versions of security components. Without this AES encryption being available, we are forced to shutdown / not use the product anymore by cyber security.
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Calculations where data from two clusters are needed

SLT (Service Level Target) calculation: First off, I appreciate IBM helping us on this as this use case is totally outside of the product capability/feature realm. We discussed SevOne Kafka, RNA/RIA options. For this use case, I am totally open fo...
7 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Needs more information

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view The Service must aggregate and retain KPI data for the purposes of reporting and service: One hour view with 1 min interval, with a data retention window (sliding) of 13 weeks Busy ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

ITM SQL Agent should optimize the SQL Server plan cache usage.

Problem is that currently plans are created for every query ( samples in attached document ) that means overhead in creating a lot of plans only used once and a waste of plan cache memory.That could be optimized to reduce the plan cache memory.
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics

Hi Team, We are in need of CrashLoopBackOff event in Built-in metrics to identify the pod crash which is a mandatory requirement.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Add USERID= to TEP Action on a Situation

We need TEP to issue a CEMT SET TASK taskno PURGE command to a CICS region where the task triggers a particular Situation. We can do that, however, we need a particular RACF Userid associated with it. Currently it is the ID of the Situation creato...
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration