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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...
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...

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Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

Detailed framework and JDBC information

Ability to collect and report on the used versions of instrumentation frameworks and jdbc drivers. Use-Case: Having performance problems on the database front and with having this information we can determine or exclude problems based on the jdbc ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3 Not under consideration

ITM TEP Desktop client - additional information/message on logon screen before login

As per requirements monitoring team is obliged to add additional information on TEP desktop client logon screen, before user gets authenticated. Please refer to TS003840030.
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Output of netstat from host dashboard

In this particular case - execute a netstat command and get the output - perhaps in a popup window like we do for thread dumps or command line parameters. In general, I get requests to execute arbitrary commands from the context of a dashboard. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Alert if a job stream getting expire

There might be possibilities that a scheduler adds some specific time frame to a jobstream(Ex : to run 2 months), If a normal daily job added on the stream by mistake in between this 2 months, Job will run only till the date mentioned in the sched...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Alert if recurring job not runs as per schedule

If a recurring job scheduled to run 15 mins in 2 hours, There should be a monitor to check if that job runs 8 times in 2 hours. Or like hourly monitor if there is no 4 triggers. This will help globally to all customers to check if critical recurri...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration