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Instana

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Data after retention period is not correct

The Unbounded Analytics is operating on the data-set that's in the data-store for the selected timeframe. When the timeframe is outside of the (full-granularity) short term window that is defined in the self-hosted configuration the results are im...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Instana k8s as operator + customer file - Exclude namespaces

It definitively makes sense to provide a mechanism which allows users to exclude entities from monitoring based on annotations and meta data
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Not under 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 The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...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 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Add an "export to CSV" button to extract information from instana

The customer would like to have an option to "export data to CSV" from the analytic view in order to extract data from Instana to generate reports for SLA for their clients.
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration

Display number of Active Servers for a respective service against time-series chart

Customer would like to monitor their ASG based EC2 instances auto-scaling activity and they want a metric to plot in custom dashboards against the time-series chart. They have attached a reference image which they used to plot in their previous AP...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Not under consideration

Intgration qradar

In monitoring you need a holistic view, like cloud, multicloud, etc. also you need a main dashboard where everything comes together. security and performance are related to each other. So it will be great if qradar can be integrated in the Instana...
about 3 years ago in Instana 2 Not under consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Potential Problems Digest

a single location for viewing/reviewing anomalies is desired.Customer’s use case needs a 1-week look back
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Need to Modify Built-in Event for System load too high (parametrization of built-in events)

The customer needs to modify one built-in event for High CPU Utilization .Changes they want in metric:
1. Load Threshold = 75 % (85% for streaming servers)
2. Sliding window span = 15 min Can you please help them to create a new built-in event wit...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Navigate with context to Events window.

from AP dashboards allow navigation directly to events with event.application/service/endpoint.name populated.
over 3 years ago in Instana 4 Not under consideration