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Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
9 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

Give Instana Agent helm chart a possiblity to configure the path to containerd.sock

Instana Agent is expecting the containerd.sock in this directory on Kubernetes nodes: /run/containerd/containerd.sock As we are using an RKE2 K8s cluster containerd.sock is located in /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock instead which results in in...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

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9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Test Powershell support for Actions Beta

We have been told that Powershell should in theory work on windows hosts for the actions beta, but it's unclear how thoroughly this has been tested.
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Threshold on the same metric twice within the same

Customers need the ability to threshold on the same metric twice within the same Event. It is VERY common for customers to want to setup two different Events (1 warning and 1 critical). They way they achieve that is something like the following: W...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Display information when data query times out in instana ui

In instana ui preview for log message template in AP is empty.This related to an Instana Ticket: Instana Support adviced to raise an AHA request:" adding this functionality everywhere where data queries time out in UI would be a new feature request."
10 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Delivered

Instana's Terraform Strategy

As user of Terraform and utilising: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/gessnerfl/instana/latest/docs We want to know how Instana is about to support this natively, and what are the plans/roadmap in regards to Terraform.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
10 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered