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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 Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Static installing Instana agent for windows remains needless windows registry postscript, or update.

When instana agent is installed statically on windows, updates and writes are made to the windows registry when start.bat is used, which cannot be removed. This is because there is no uninstaller for static installations. Enterprise-grade customer...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

New Joined Hosts to new default zone

Dears, How can we set / configure Instana to add new joined hosts to a certain zone instate of "Undefined Zone"? We need all new joined hosts to be member of "New servers" zone for example instate of "Undefined Zone"... and later we can configure ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Propagate pipeline feedback release markers to underlying infrastructure

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=capabilities-pipeline-feedback The pipeline feedback allows to set a release marker on- Global- Application Perspective- Service- Service within an application perspective Only in cas...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Hitachi Storage target support required for Turbonomic

We have received a request from IAG (Insurance Australia Group) to reinstate the support of monitoring Hitachi Storage through Turbonomic because it is IAG's core on-premise storage. IAG is in phase of adapting Turbonomic ARM across the organisati...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Alert when sensitive data has been collected

Because IBM has a large number of customers in the Financial and Healthcare industries it is important to have the ability to alert when potentially sensitive data has been captured. For example: social security numbers, dates of birth, passwords,...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Dependencies/Flow tab Optimization to view data for a week

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down . Ability to show...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Organize elements by folders

Similar to https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-692 it'd be very helpful to have folders in application perspectives (and basically everywhere else, too) We're running 4 different tenants with Instana to separate configurati...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Java ECS Collector on Nginx docker image

From support case TS013962979 "We explained to the customer that Java ECS Collector in an Nginx Docker Image is not supported at the moment, however, they would like to try https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Allow user to increase retention for specific call/traces

Hello, it would be great if users could selectively extend retention beyond short term retention (currently set to default value of 7 days) of specific calls/traces e.g. by referencing calls/traces in analytic query. Other option would be to mark ...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Give Instana Agent helm chart a possiblity to configure the path to containerd.sock

Instana Agent is expecting the containerd.sock in this directory on Kubernetes nodes: /run/containerd/containerd.sock As we are using an RKE2 K8s cluster containerd.sock is located in /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock instead which results in in...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted