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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 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

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IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

ServiceAccount GCP Helm

Hello, We would like to use Serviceaccount annotation for GCP in Helm Instana Here is a merge request. https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/pull/16 Best Regards
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

SLES15 s390x Compatibility

We run our TADDM environment on SystemZ (S390x) SLES12/15. Looking for gaining ceritifcation and support for the tool on this platform.
5 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Andoid SDK - Ability to reset Instana.sessionId programatically

Current implementation of Mobile Application Monitoring creates a session upon each fresh start of the mobile app. It would help greatly if we could programatically reset this sessionId.
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

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 / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 0

Add integrated links/info for far-end interface in out-of-the-box report

SevOne already understands the 2 device/interface mappings for a given link. WHen looking at a given interface, a link towards far-end interface should be provided in out-of-the-box report (ex: Network Device Summary, Interface Object Summary, etc.)
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Show interface bundle (link aggregation) mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports

Allows troubleshooting of bundle (link aggregation) related issues. Show interface bundle mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports, for example "Network Device Summary" and "Network Performance Report".
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Filter Check Boxes to SDN Fault Widget

The customer stated on a few occasions that "in its current state it is not usable," referring to the SDN Fault Messages widget in Data Insight. The corresponding page in the Cisco APIC GUI has check boxes to hide acknowledged faults and hide dele...
5 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration