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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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PowerVC sensor

Instana already has the Openstack sensor. Although it can help to discover and observe part of PowerVC, the diagnostics of the PowerVC compute instances are missing and cannot be monitored. Also the pHMC sensor does not cover the same functionalit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Delivered

Re-Login URL Problem in IDP Enabled Backend

Hi, When a user logout from the IDP-enabled K8/OCP-based installation, it forwards the user to the base URL to which a user can't log in. So they need to change URL to tenant again. That behaviour creates confusion on the user side. Thank you.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Enable HSTS by default on all user facing endpoints

Currently, customer can enable HSTS for EUM and all nginx components (so everything except agent traffic) by eum { hsts_enabled=true} on docker-based installations (opt-in). That EUM settings affect also HSTS on the Instana backend i.e., for at ap...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

allow users to comment "configuration elements"

please help users to document configured elements inside Instana with comment/description-fields on at least following configuration dialogs: - Create Application Perspective - Configure Services - Configure Endpoints - Access Control – Roles - Ac...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Context-sensitive tag picker on the infrastructure map

please make the tag-picker on the infrastructure map context-sensitive: With an active dynamic focus filter it should only show tags that are defined on matching agents.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

CentOS8 support

Currently CentOS8 is not listed as a supported OS for on-prem on Instana official documentation.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

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

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

Improve trace context between Weblogic T3 RMI calls

Customer's request: To provide trace context between outgoing (A) T3 RMI calls to another Weblogic instance (B).Used protocol: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/e13721/rmi_t3.htm#WLRMI143Moving to https based protocol is not an option ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Numeric scale for sensitivity slider in Smart Alerts

a numeric value for sensitivity fo Smart Alerts is desired.Iteratively tuning the sensitivity of multiple alerts is complicated as there is no way to measure "how much" it has been changed or to compare sensitivities between alerts.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered