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Kubernetes

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Add kubernetes pod emphemeral storage usage as metric

Hi all, When monitoring critical k8s deployments which have an ephemeral storage limit defined, it is essential to actively keep track on the current usage and get an alert once the limit is nearly reached. It might be possible to get these metric...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Under review

Allow label mapping in analytics or custom dashboards

Example use: Visualizaton of kubernetes metrics e.g. for resource_limits
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Functionality already exists

Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Network Visibility

Due to the increasingly complex nature of the network, we spend a lot of time tracking down connectivity issues. These issues might be due to an unknown firewall rule, a misconfigured network policy, or incorrect routing setup in Kubernetes. Addin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration