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PINNED 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...
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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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CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background: CATL(www.catl.com） has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Integrate with Bitbucket

We have support some pipeline integrations https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=apis-pipeline-feedback-integrations That can interact with our Releases feature in Instana https://instana.github.io/openapi/#tag/Releases H...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Integrations 1 Submitted

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Housekeep metric and traces data

Provide a way to automatically house keep old metric and trace data if storage is reaching certain threshold or way to manually delete the data. It's better to have a method to export the data first and delete it. In the future if needed after exp...
2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable

Make Instana ui color and fonts with backend version 261 configurable.
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

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