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Remote monitoring for kubernetes cluster

Be able to observe a kubernetes cluster without deploying instana agent (pods) in the cluster (agentless).
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Needs more information

Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 4 Submitted

Need class timings in profiling .Net applications

Hello Team, our customer uses .Net applications on kubernetes cluster and enabled profiling. They want to see what time profiled classes took to process requests. At the moment profiler diagram shows percentage, it doesn't help enough for customer...
12 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Need autotrace-webhook to support instrumentation nginx proxy with custom configs

Hello Team, our customer uses Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy calls to their application. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for most of them. We’ve adjusted autotace-...
12 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add support for Google ADK

Currently we are using Google ADK and LiteLLM but to get traces to the Instana backend we have to use OTel which limits observabiltiy and functionality. We would like to request Google ADK support so that tracing works "out of the box".
12 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Planned for future release

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Support for Cluster Listeners in High Availability MSSQL Environments

Description: We are currently monitoring MSSQL database calls using Instana agents installed on both the machines making the calls (via .NET framework services) and the database servers. However, in our high availability (HA) environments, the dat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Planned for future release