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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...
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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.
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Provide more configurable items for Kafka topic settings in Instana self-hosted operator

During we deploy self-hosted Instana backend in kubenertes via Instana operator, the kafka topics will be created and configured with a couple of specific settings which are likely hardcoded, eg. retention.ms, segment.ms.When customers need to mak...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

FP DEDB and MSDB support by Instana on z

According to the manual (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iooz?topic=components-z-apm-connect-ims-data-producer), FP DEDB and MSDB databases in IMS MQ Bridge transactions are not supported by Instana.Our customer is using this function and they want to...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs.

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs. We have some requirement to set a time value more than 2hrs. eg: We have critical interfaces where we want to monitor if the utilization is above 60% for 1 week out of 1 week trig...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

support for extracting traces from multiple instances (running on two different ports)

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

add Embed panel support for website integration

partner is plan to integration INSTANA with their website applications, request feature similar to Grafana Embeded graph. https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/share-dashboards-panels/#embed-panel
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Improve usability of Oracle sensor to diagnose problems

I had an interesting conversation with a customer regarding Oracle monitoring. Customer is Radial. I’m going to open an Idea, but wanted to pass along the info. The customer has other tools today that they use for monitoring Oracle. He described a...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configure MTLS for IBMMQ

The Use case behind this is that the client needs to configure MTLS for IBMMQ, and needs to provide the certificates (and password/secret) via JKS files. Basically trying to accomplish this in the helm chart: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Compatibility for Java Profiling/Profiling on IBM Power (specifically on Linux)

This would be useful as it gives Power users (Dillards specifically which is a deal size of 108,480) access to java profiling for specific insights that they are looking for into the code. This is a dealbreaker request for them. Thank you for cons...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Planned for future release

Support is needed for auto-profiling for Java on Power Linux

Many customers use Power Linux as their production platform. In this case, the platform is OpenShift on Power Linux. The customer is running WebSphere (java) on the platform and needs the ability to get deeper into the code to understand where tim...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Better UI for Smart Alerts and Alert channels

We have discovered that without a rigid and detailed naming convention for smart alerts (including global smart alerts), we are encountering many issues as administrators to figure out which alerts are being fired, and which ones belong to which A...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

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