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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 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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Transform data on custom dasboards

It would be helpful if there is a possibility to transform Data in a Widget as some raw values aren't easy or helpful to visualize. As example, we get from a prometheus endpoint a metric providing raw values as bits, but in the Widget I would like...
23 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, able to see Splunk applications through the Instana Portal.

We want monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application in the Instana application perspective. As per the IBM support, there is no support to monitor calls/traces for a Splunk application, therefore, you will not be able to see any Splunk hosts or ...
26 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Ability to Monitor Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway

Currently Instana cannot monitor Layer7
26 days ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Submitted

we want to be able specify for Turbonomic to make recommendations on certain workloads based on more than a months data

we want to be able specify for Turbonomic to make recommendations on certain workloads based on more than a months data ie 2 months + so we can have more consistent lower usage from resources versus capacity
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Submitted

Infra metrics for IBM DB2warehouse monitoring

We have integrated IBM DB2warehouse production instance with instana and we are able to access the default dashboard with some metrics. We are exploring the available metrics to configure alerts, but unfortunately we don't see the required metrics...
27 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Create custom Dashboards / Panels with Sythetic results data

Teams want to see the status of single or multiple synthetic checks in custom dashboards for better overview.
28 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Monitor files into S3 bucket

We would like to have a way to monitor files into S3 bucket.As same as we use a normal file dependency, client has a need to monitor files into S3 bucket prior triggering a job/job stream.We see cloud as the future statement and would like to have...
28 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
29 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Instana UI usable in iframe

We want to make certain alerts and metrics for our call readiness visible in a mobile app. Currently, the integration via iframe does not seem to be possible due to the frame-option setting. Can frame-option be configured by customer?
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted