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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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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Add the tenant unit names in the short URLs

Currently, the short URL contains the base URL for all tenant units in the customer’s environment. The customer would like to configure different short URLs for different tenant units. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Not under consideration

Customer is requesting a mobile application that supports push alert notifications

Customer is requesting a mobile application for Instana that supports push alert notifications. The customer has outsourced support for hardware and OS support, a mobile application would let users simply enable push notifications instead of manag...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Last Backup Sensor Option to monitor by hours.

This metric only offer to monitor the number of days since the last full backup was done, this is ok but if there were a possibility to monitor by hours instead, would be a more precise and secure monitoring, because it would allow me to now that ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Openshift containers by environment var

Feature Request​Original ticket: We are wondering if it's possible to enable java profiling (https://www.instana.com/docs/profiling/configure-profile) just for Openshift containers with a defined env. variable.Example: com.instana.plugin.profiling...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Extend backend APIs to export/import gracefully all possible configurations rather than just a few

As an AIOPs practictioner I would want to see the API's (only APIs not the UI) behind config-migration feature be extended to support the migration of all possible Insatna configurations. Currently, it is only limited to Applications, Websites, Mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent / Alert / API-C / Backend Enablement / Extend Capabilities / Integrations / Self Hosted / SRE 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

instana-console (docker) delete licenses

Currently instana console allows download, import and verify. We have had issues where a license needed to be deleted from instana, and we achieved this by manually deleting this from the cockroach DB.It would be great if a new flag was added to i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Customer wants the roadmap for Instana to cover the Cloud Native services mentioned in the attached sheet.

IBM is responding to an RFP by HDFC Bank Ltd and pitching IBM Instana/ Watson AIOPS Event Manager / SevOne with a potential deal size of $8-10M. Customer wants clarification on whether the Cloud Native services in the attached sheet already is / w...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 2 Not under consideration

Migration feature should not be visible for all

Currently the Migration feature can be accessed by any user logged into Instana. I was able to test and reproduce this behaviour on a local On-Prem install by enabling the following feature flag: configMigrationFeatureEnabled Any user can then see...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Not under consideration

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