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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Managing group permissions separate from group members via API

The client would like to propose a feature request for managing group permissions through the Instana API without always providing all group members.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Display number of Active Servers for a respective service against time-series chart

Customer would like to monitor their ASG based EC2 instances auto-scaling activity and they want a metric to plot in custom dashboards against the time-series chart. They have attached a reference image which they used to plot in their previous AP...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic threshold is not available for Error calls in Smart Alerts

The client wants to use the Beta Smart alert feature in Instana and observed the Dynamic Threshold featureis only applicable for Throughput and Slow Calls and they want the same feature to be enabled on Erroneous Calls Error and Warning Logs andHT...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Allow wildcarding on custom event metrics specification

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring open ports of the server

What problems / use-cases does the customer need to solve: The customer wants to check some ports which are not acting as an endpoint(which is not giving any response/ giving an error response ) with Linux netstat command in Synthetic Check.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Support for MicroFocus Cobol application (tracing/monitoring)

A combination running on OpenShift // PodMan (no docker) // MicroFocus Cobol
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Options for adding Fargate instrumentation without rebuilding application container

The customer would like an alternative option for being able to add instrumentation to their java applications without rebuilding their app container. Usually the only updates required for this application are updates to keys and certs which don't...
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

POC-arlo - calls per minute diplayed on AP regardless of time window

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

Toggle to enable release pop-ups from appearing

Release pop-up notifications are not optional and since they are currently global they can be very frequent. It would be good to have the option for users to control whether or not they appear. "As an Instana user I would like the ability to turn ...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Instrumentation support for RocksDB JNI 5.18.3

Customer is using Java Wildfly Application which through JNI connects to RocksDB.They are using Kafka States Stores.
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration