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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Tracing 'Send Email' actions

"Should we see emails sent by our java apps using springs Java mail sender? (I am missing outgoing Emails inside the trace or the email-server as an unmonitored system / host)"
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 0 Not under consideration

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations

Ability to setup multiple Log Management integrations for ELK or others. Use-case, one can have different dashboards for different purposes, currently you can only setup one.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

2 or more poll data on a same graph

There is a need to show data from at least 2 poll polices on a same graph for single device. This is necessary to provide in order to replace other vendor software usage with ITNM at customer and to keep same device usage visibility that previous ...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Output of netstat from host dashboard

In this particular case - execute a netstat command and get the output - perhaps in a popup window like we do for thread dumps or command line parameters. In general, I get requests to execute arbitrary commands from the context of a dashboard. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Workload Designer: ability to change the displayed order of Jobs within Job Streams

Currently when adding new jobs to a job stream they end up at the end of the list regardless of where the job goes dependecy-wise. But the job stream can be more clear to read if the job is placed according to its dependencies. This is a request t...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration