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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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Integration with Logging tools - Scalyr

Feature Request: Integration with Logging tools to allow easy access to/from Instana.Tools: Scalyr Splunk.
over 4 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Cost of ownership / internal charge back use-case

The customer is using LeanIX for "application inventory". They would like to add a tag (which in this case would contain the unique leanix id) to the application perspectives so a correlation can be done. The request to us is to consider allowing ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

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

Support Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't support template variables, can we please enable them?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Provide Cache metrics for JBoss DataGrid

Instana should expose metrics about the general per-cache behaviour for short-term analysis with transaction correlation and long-term for capacity planning and analyzability.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Not under consideration

TNCM support for googles gNMI protocol for device configuration

being able to use gNMI protocol for device configuration, one of the customer VF Corp is looking for this support to replace CA configuration Manager
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

API Filter for tenants in the integration with grafana

Configuring the Metric API as a Grafana data source Last Updated: 2022-02-24 The Monitoring component provides an API that enables metrics to be accessed using a subset of the PromQL query language. This API provides access to all metrics that a...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Polling of bandwidth for utilization on specific interfaces, esp when sub interfaces are present

We have devices discovered and they have a interface say like se0/1/0 and there is a subinterface se0/1/0.100 underneath it. I have inbandwidth and outbandwidth polling enabled. And it detects utilization above 90% and sends alerts and everything...
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

HAproxy reload is supported

Whenever HAProxy gets reloaded (because rules changed), the HAProxy process will get a new PID. Instana at this point will record the HAProxy as a new instance and this loop will continue over and over. Could we get this fixed?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Check the OPENS dependency last

Check the OPENS dependency last. OPENS is satisfied BEFORE any FOLLOWS so when we check for database processes being there, the OPENS has already been done, and the the FOLLOWS hold the job up, and when it runs the database has come down.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration