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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...
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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
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Support Oracle Linux

We are trying to set up a PoC for Instana. The customer has Oracle Linux which they say is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux. Do we have the capability to set up an on prem backend with Oracle Linux?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Delivered

change the value of Nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" to larger than 128

the value of nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" is fixed with 128, which will cause the gateway pod failed to start when the length of baseDomain is larger than 128 with following error. # kubectl logs gateway-67965f476b-l8f45 -n ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add Active Directory referral support to TEMS SDS client

Enables customers to benefit from the TEMS SDS security client for validating both the TEMS & TEPS login credentials where Active Directory is configured to use the LDAP referral feature. Currently the LDAP referral feature is not supported i...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Configurable ReplicaFactor for Kafka and Replica/Sharding for ElasticSearch in K8s Operator

customer has deployed instana in production environment, has deployed instana agents on several hundreds K8S nodes. the customer IT department is heavily using instana as their observability platform Architecture of Instana Deployment: the instana...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Delivered

Self service to create agentkey for Instana Tenant/Unit in Onprem

In self-hosted k8s based environment, customers would want to split their thousands of agent hosts into different tenants/units. It works like APM as SaaS but just for on premise. For each unit, a set of unique key are required per Instana support...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Use ENTITYID instead of MAINNODEENTITYID for BGP status polling

This RFE is based on initial observation and detailed discussion with L3 support. The L3 support finally concluded that such BGP event supression is impossible in the current design. With the current ITNM polling design, "Interface Filter" option...
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

IMS TMRA tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction between WAS on Linux, IMS TMRA, IMS Connect and IMS DC/DB. But because IMS TMRA is not supported to be tracked, so they cannot see the whole transaction. They want to have the solution by 2022 Q2.
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Add back missing info from Workload Designer

In IWS 9.3, Workload Designer, when looking for an object (a Job for example), it would give basic information in the search results - Job name, Workstation, Job type, last updated (or created) and who last updated it. In 9.5 the last updated and ...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 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.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Delivered

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