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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 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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Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

FR - Python sensor support for Tornado 6

At this moment instana python sensor it's only support Tornado bellow version 6.0.0 but we need to update and app that depends on Tornado 6.1 and we need the Instana monitoritation. It's possible add support for Tornado >= 6.0.0 to Instana Pyth...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Monitor Workload Filtering

Within Workload Scheduler include an extended filtering mechanism on the Monitor Workload screen. Currently it only works as an include. An extended option would enable filtering for NOT containing or using AND/OR to display more complicated sched...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Supporting aio-pika 6.7.1 library for Python application

Hi, We our Python application makes calls to RabbitMQ by using aio-pika library and in Instana we dont see these calls.Could you please look at it and add supporting this library?Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Oracle agent (RZ) alert log monitor needs to handle a CDB/PDB setup where ORA-errors are now not at the beginning of the alert log entry

This is necessary else there would be no alert log monitoring capability (alerts missed)
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

Percentage calculation between two filters

Hello, I wanted to submit an idea for a feature as i came across different usecases that could be fulfilled with instana's data. The idea would be to be able to calculate a percentage between two filters and be able to :- display it on a dashboard...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Planned for future release