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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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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monitor and alert for kubernetes job failures

It would be a great value add to have the ability to monitor and alert for kubernetes job failures. Our system runs a few cronjob nightly and we currently have no way to alert when one of these kubernetes jobs fails.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Planned for future release

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

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 1 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

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
over 4 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Sensor/Metrics for AWS Auto Scale Groups

Would be really useful to map scaling activity across time/Alert on maximum scale reached. ASG could be also used to determine online/offline. 
over 5 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release