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BWI self-hosted Use RedHat catalogue for DB Operator

Background: The currently provided DB Operator versions have to be pulled manually and publically from the internet Refer to the installation guide for using Kubernetes Operator in official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observ...
10 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Provide a complete oc-mirror ImageSetConfig for each Instana version

Description In a disconnected installation of OpenShift, the oc/oc-mirror tool to mirror is used in OpenShift and all RedHat catalogues to a mirror registry. The easiest, pushed procedure by RedHat and mostly used approach in the meantime, is to u...
10 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Instana DB oprator for power : Images should be pulled with digest and not tag

Background: In an OpenShift disconnection installation you have to configure the ImageContentSourcePolicy the way, that the original source path of the images are mapped to the mirror registry path where the image(s) have been uploaded to. By defa...
10 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
about 1 month ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Review default resources for Instana standard

Dear Colleagues, we tried to install Standard Instana in production and demo modes on bare metal server in IBM Cloud and faced issues with logging to Instana backend: * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):* OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERRO...
2 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need to check number of open files for Instana standard

Dear colleagues, We have a customer with Baremetal server for Instana who faced unexpected Instana behaviour after installing. The problem was that by default servers have default number of open files per user - 1024. It was hard to troubleshoot i...
2 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
4 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Exporting the list of agents including FQDN and related informaiton

1. How to export all agents, host FQDN, agent version and related informaiton using GUI? 2.Is there a API that I can use to export the Agent version, FQDN, agent-status into a file
5 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted