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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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Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future 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

Filter calls on the agent level based on IP addresses

We are running Network Scans against our Linux Server on which our Applications are running. This results in a lot of Calls against our Applications which are traced in instana and looks like an attack. We would like to filter these calls on agent...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Support different Container Runtimes in Helm Chart

Different container runtimes make their socket available under different paths inside their filesystem. For example containerd socket is under: /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock Dockers socket is under: /var/run/docker.sock Currently only the do...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future 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

Support for monitoring the RedHat virtualization platform

Couple of potential customers are using the RHV and they need complete monitoring of the platform in addition to the infra monitoring for each individual hosts similar to VMWare. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

High Availability (HA) for Instana AWS Agent (Cloud Watch Kinesis Stream)

Introduction:-------------We want to make heavy use of the AWS Instana Agent on various AWS Accounts 50+. The Teams want to see and use the AWS Metric Data in Instana for Alerting and Analysis.Therefore we plan to set up an Instana AWS Agent. We l...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future 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

Add Support for Java - Akka - Alpakka JMS Framework

Dear Instana Team, for the New Relic Migration, we have teams using the Java-based AKKA - JMS Alpakka Framework.It seems like this Framework is not supported / Instrumented by Instana.We noticed this because we do not see any incoming messages in ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration