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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.
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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Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Instana: Built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert needs to take active/inactive memory into consideration

The existing built-in "System memory exhausted" Alert in Instana is unusable and I will be using Turbonomic instead. The below SuSE Linux URL supports this stand as well. SuSE Support: Memory management best practices URL: https://www.suse.com/sup...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Parse json formatted logs to generate fields and extract log level

We're writing lot's of logs in json format as this is very helpful with other log management solutions (Graylog2, Datadog) to parse these logs into fields and have very searchable data. This would be necessary for us to further use Instana Log ana...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

If I have subscriptions with the same name in different Azure Service Principles, I would like a way to add each subscription separately to the Target Configuration.

When configuring multiple Azure Service Principals as Targets, if the Subscriptions they have have the same name, the configuration will be overwritten by a subsequent win. [1] Azure Service Principals "A" has "Subscription 1", and Azure Service P...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Planned for future release

Memory profiles are absent from .NetCore applications

We have only cpu profiles and there is no memory profiles available for dotNetCore applications. Can you please add them to have full profiling of dotNetCore applications.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration