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Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Add a link/button from Instana dashboards to our documentation with the context

We can’t fix all possible issues that may happen in customer environments. But we can add a link/button pointing to our documentation from the service dashboards. For example, when we discover an postgres database service, but it shows no calls or...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas 4 Future consideration

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?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Cross teams/areas / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

AzureApp service

As we could see, your Azure App Services are discovered and we are able to see the metrics. You were missing the tracing so we did the troubleshooting for that. We could see that our InstanaProfiler is in place and after checking the logs, there a...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Is a defect

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

instana-console (docker) delete licenses

Currently instana console allows download, import and verify. We have had issues where a license needed to be deleted from instana, and we achieved this by manually deleting this from the cockroach DB.It would be great if a new flag was added to i...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration