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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 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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Need to operate with timestamps to create thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss timestamps in threshold functionality. Our customer uses them with Tivoli Monitoring and they're interested in implementation of the same functionality in Instana. Below, there are the 3 examples of such ITM sit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Support for Spring Boot 3 and IBM MQ / JMS Integration

As a customer using the following library: https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-jms-spring from the IBM MQ Team. We would like to see the tracing information for incoming JMS Messages, and those calling a DB. <dependency> <groupId>com.i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

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

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

NFS share observability metrics

The customer is currently utilizing NFS shares for diverse applications, including the active-passive availability of their IT systems. They have expressed an interest in integrating the Instana observability platform to monitor their NFS shares e...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support different Container Runtimes in Helm Chart

Different container runtimes make their socket available under different paths inside their filesystem. For example containerd socket is under: /var/run/containerd/containerd.sock Dockers socket is under: /var/run/docker.sock Currently only the do...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Support for monitoring the RedHat virtualization platform

Couple of potential customers are using the RHV and they need complete monitoring of the platform in addition to the infra monitoring for each individual hosts similar to VMWare. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Java - Akka - Alpakka JMS Framework

Dear Instana Team, for the New Relic Migration, we have teams using the Java-based AKKA - JMS Alpakka Framework.It seems like this Framework is not supported / Instrumented by Instana.We noticed this because we do not see any incoming messages in ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration