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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.
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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nginx v29 support needed

Customer had to upgrade NGINX to v29 due to security issues. We need to speed up release for v29 because its not supported by the latest Instana version. Due to this reason customer has lost some monitoring abilities for their critical systems. Cu...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1 Delivered

Ratio Based Alerts for HTTP Status Codes

Hi Team, I want to place a request to have alerts based on Ratio rather than just having based on having alerts on daily and weekly seasonality. This is required as we are growing. We might see some common errors increasing in the system and avoid...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Have a way export the Action Detail screen into a PDF document

It is good that we now have direct URL that can lead to individual Action Detail page. I will suggest we add a function to allow user to download/export the Action Detail page into a PDF document. This can be implement by ... 1. add an export butt...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
10 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Add Support for Nokia Router 7750 SR

device does not appear to support the standard entity mib, the entity agent is not able to fetch the required containment data that is present on the enterprise mib.
10 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

add aws rds EBSIO% metric into Instana

If you add aws rds EBSIO% metric we can create an alert it
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Azure AppService .NET Core tracing support

I would like support for Azure AppService .NET Core. Currently, only instrumentation of AppService for .Net Framework 4.5.1+ workloads is supported.
11 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Delivered

increasing the characters displayed on the UI for a string type column

For ITM SQL agent -- customized SQL part , number of characters displayed on the UI for a string type column is limited to 64, due to which messages > then 64 characters are truncated, due to this we are not able to monitor messages more then 6...
11 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered