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Kubernetes

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Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Not under consideration

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Not under 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...
11 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Prod: change in autotrace webhook version needs application to clean and redeploy(prod blocked)

The autotrace mutating webhook is only called when there is a redeployment.We would need to rewrite this into an operator to gain more control and actually observe the state to trigger a redeployment. This is a production blocker as every-time we ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration

Add cluster wide usage lines to graphs

It would be good to have the same usage lines in the graph as we see them on namespaces or deployments.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Warn, alert, highlight containers with Root privileges

Please highlight with a specific color deployments and containers that are running with root privileges, allow to trigger alarm on this. Probably for those who does not have open policy agent it could be a first step or to add some value for those...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Memory Limits Allocation

Issue: Case numberTS014283635 We are receiving alerts from eks_commhub_prod_east_2 cluster stating that the below mentioned nodes are breaching the Memory Limits Allocation. ip-10-45-30-219.us-east-2.compute.internalip-10-45-31-81.us-east-2.comput...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration