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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.
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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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Show Context Menu when right click in time chart

Thanks for providing the great feature "Download a time chart as a CSV file"! https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=saas-build-265#download-a-time-chart-as-a-csv-file I used this feature, and it's a very nice feature, but...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

ACE & Datapower to Database transaction tracing

Currently ACE/Datapower to Database(Oracle 12c/19c) transaction tracing is not available. It is required to track the transaction end-to-end. In Vi there are many integrations where ACE/Datapower is calling Database either via stored procedure cal...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Match AWS Lambda invocation timestamps in Instanta Infrastructure dashboard to timestamp reported in Lambda instrumented traces or Cloudwatch.

For AWS Lambda there is a delay of >= 10 minutes for metrics like Lambda Invocation. This is because CloudWatch makes data available with some delay. However, this is causing confusion with customers as the Lambda invocation times reported in t...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to trigger Events on individual CPUs with high utilization

I'm working with a customer where 1 or 2 of the CPUs on a server have sustained high CPU utilization. Currently, you are only able to define Events against the overall CPU utilization across ALL CPUs. This server has 192 CPUs. The Average CPU util...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Provide information from textbase MBeans and nested MBeans within Instana.

For the client (Continental) it is very important to see information from textbase MBeans as well as nested MBeans within Instana to determine RC’s. But Instana is not capable to do so because nested Mbeans and textbase MBeans are not recognized b...
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Set up monitoring for DB2 threads for Guardian Prod servers in Instana

It is useful for customer to access the real time active DB2 thread counts. It is beneficial for Guardian customer to monitor the ongoing situation of DB2 thread count of cloud activities whether they are heavily consumed or moderate, which helps ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

kubectl instana plugin should support license verify feature

Same as docker "instana license verify", kubectl instana plugin should allow to verify the license during the installation and later. One of the customers (Freedom mobile) asked about that feature
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Support for Tracing Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP

Customer using Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP cannot trace calls going through this component, losing visibility on the latency and balancing provided by this component. Adding this will complete the view end-to-end of a call entering an OCP cluste...
6 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 1 Planned for future release

Increase Retention Time for Mobile App Beacons

We currently only have a history of 7 days which is not even covering an entire release cycle of 2 weeks. Ideally would be a data retention time of at least 4 weeks so we can compare data over a longer period and especially with the previous rollo...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Extend the agent prometheus import with openmetrics standard

Hello, As of today, if you want to import metrics following this standard, you can't use the PROM importer despite this format is supported by PROM itsef. https://openmetrics.io/ The only alternative is to use telegraf to convert the prom metrics ...
6 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

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