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Views - Can't see who is using

CLOUDY-I-156 was closed as delivered, but only part of request was delivered, the who created part. I had also requested insight into who is using View. As an Admin, if I want to delete a View, I need to understand who is using it as a default Vie...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
over 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Views 4 Delivered

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Add support of SLES15 on zLinux for Apache(IHS) tracing, to suppport Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring

We want to use Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring, through Apache HTTPd tracing module. Now our IBM HTTP Server v9 is running on SLES 15 on zLinux. Please provide the support of SLES15 on zLinux. Now we only support SLES 12 on x86-64 arch...
8 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Assign a view to a Frontdoor Role

In Cloudability, when editing a View to assign to users, the customer wants to have the option to assign the View to a Frontdoor Role as well. As for now, only individual users can be assigned to Views.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2 Delivered

Request to Add a description Feild for View option

We observed that for the VIEWS we are unable to have a description field where we can update details of what is the purpose of the view – We set up a lot of views in our environment and this would be useful for us to remember the reason and/or del...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered

envoy sensors for envoy 1.19 with gRPC

we added Envoy >= v1.15 support to our libinstana_sensor artifact for distributed tracing in version 1.5.0.
about 4 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Delivered