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Allow Instana to perform deep monitoring of OpenShift

We recently had an issue in our OpenShift cluster where we were unable to authenticate against our AD server because the certificates on the AD server had expired. I would have expected that Instana was able to monitor OpenShift and alert us to th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Kong monitoring with all the metrics!!

As on today, Kong is available for monitoring through instana, but with limited metrics on which we can put alerting. Below metrics are not available for alert metric to be setup as event. Since it is not completely available, we are not able to p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

To include more services under Azure.

Omnicom Team would like to include more services under Resource Inventory -> Azure. Currently, only Compute, Managed Disk and Database services are available under services dropdown in Resource Inventory section for Azure.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 3 Not under consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Add Snapshot Launch date

We would be able to see the date when a snapshot has been created and would be able to monitor the existence and cost of a snapshot by filtering on the launch date column. This would enable us to address historic snapshots that are no longer requi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Not under consideration

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Improved Support for Lightweight Kubernetes Distributions

As Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, many developers and organizations are leveraging lightweight Kubernetes distributions like MicroK8s, Minikube, and Kind for development, testing, and smaller-scale production deployments. However, the curr...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists