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Need ability to view which entities/processes/application/containers are consuming from the Pod's Mem/CPU Usage

Hi Team, Application is crashing due to increased memory. Want to view in Instana UI, where actual application memory and CPU is getting used. Example: Allocated memory for application is 6Gi, and 12 CPU. These usages want to see in instana UI Tha...
15 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Customize Tags OTEL on ACE

The way to parameterize through the server.conf.yaml, the OTEL TAG is required because we currently have the X-Remote-Addr attribute that travels in the HTTP Headers, but when activating the OTEL in the server.conf.yaml of the integration server i...
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
15 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Native cost allocation and chargeback by OpenShift namespace annotations and per‑agent ingest keys

SummaryWe need Instana to natively attribute and report usage to internal cost centers so we can fairly recharge costs. Our workloads run on shared OpenShift clusters; every namespace has annotations for cost center and application ID. A small num...
4 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Oracle.EntityFrameworkCore Overrides EF Core Classes

We are not able to see the OracleDB calls that our containerized .NET Core application make. It appears that Oracle.EntityFrameworkCore overrides some of the internal EF Core classes that Instana's instrumentation relies on. So the base EF Core in...
4 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
22 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
26 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Under review

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Ability to create alerts using K8s event

Instana offers the ability to create alerts and smart alerts from events, but the creation of alerts from Kubernetes events is not currently supported. The goal is to have this feature available so customers can set up alerts to track specific eve...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release