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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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Visibility into Sequel gem

Team would like to have visibility into the Sequel gem which we don't currently support in Ruby.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Ruby 1 Planned for future release

Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't allow to use template variables. can you consider adding support for it?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Planned for future release

Support Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't support template variables, can we please enable them?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC

Disable multiple sessions of same user in DWC. Same user should not be able to access DWC from different browsers or systems at the same time.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Filetransfer-plugin for IWS 9.5.x does not support datasets on z/OS (MVS) that are migrated by DFHSM

In TWS 9.3 everything is working fine. When a dataset on z/OS is migrated by DFHSM (the storage-administrator of MVS / z/OS) and TWS (agent or MDM) is trying to upload to, or download from, z/OS, the filetransfer-plugin does an alloc of this datas...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Agent / Sensor Releases with a stable tacked Released version

The customer suggested that we implement a stable tag with the rollout of our Agents and Sensor releases in a way : That enables customers to relay on a stable release without major Bugs or issues.
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Arithmetic operations on dashboard widgets

The customer wants to be able to create a widget using simple operations (x % / + -...).One of the use cases is creating the widget displaying the count per minute so they have to divide the average by 60 which is not yet possible.
about 3 years ago in Instana 2 Planned for future release

Live SLI on Grafana

I am creating this Feature Request for our Customer. They want to have live SLI on Grafana as this is important for them.
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Ability to connect Prometheus endpoint to applicable Instana entity

When collecting Prometheus Endpoints within Application pods all "prom applications" are listed on the host level. This isn't practible as it is not feasible to link them anyhow to the entity (in this case the pod).
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Ability to alert on % K8 deployment memory limit/requests instead of static byte value

Ability to alert on % memory limit/requests instead of static byte value.This applies to: nodepodnamespacedeployment cpu & memory limitscpu & memory requests
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release