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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 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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Dashboards not embeddable in an iframe due to CORS Restrictions

Dear Instana support team, while migrating from New Relic to Instana, some of the SBB Teams are trying to integrate their current Dashboards with the Instana Dashboards.One of the problems which occurred today is that we are not able to integrate ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

ISBANK wants NET Full framework stack trace

ISBANK wants NET Full framework stack trace for now instana only supports .NETcore ,customer needs full observibaility for their app which uses .NET framework https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-analyzing-prof...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Filtering by Log Parameters in Analytics Tab

In the Analytics tab we would like for there to be a filtering option for log parameters. There is not currently an option to filter based off of log params only the messages and level. I have attached screenshots below
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

In services developed in Java architecture, even if a technology / framework is not supported, providing endpoint / host / ip / span information without giving too much detail.

In services developed in Java architecture, even if a technology / framework is not supported, providing endpoint / host / ip / span information without giving too much detail.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 8 Not under consideration

Scaling appdata processor with HPA

We are using the instana self hosted operator and hpa to scale up appdata processor based on cpu usage we noticed that after the first start of the container it has a really high error rate. Maybe the container marks itself healthy too early. I at...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas / Self Hosted 1 Future consideration

API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration