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Instana

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Manage configuration.yaml with Secret

We would like to monitor EDB Postgres for Kubernetes on Instana. As a prerequisite, Instana runs only agents in SaaS deployment format in an OpenShift environment. EDB Postgres for Kubernetes runs in the same OpenShift environment. Referring ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Will it be helpful if can create instana filter based on OrgID , eventid etc to get TPS for merchant specific

Get the event transaction detail per second for merchant wise
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

Role Based Access Control - Add Functionallity to be able to limit access to specific Platforms (Vmware, HMC)

Hello.We would like to limit user access to see only specific applications and hosts. We create group and we can exclude/include scope for website, applications, mobileapps and kubernetes.But we cannot exclude Platforms view for HMC and Vmware. Re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Redis db integration issues with instana

NatWest are trying to enable in-depth metric monitoring for the redis instances we are using from IBM by referring to this document, we observed the challenge "Monitoring of Redis Sentinel and Redis with TLS/SSL enabled is not supported." as our r...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Support IBM App Connect v13.0

Currently IBM Instana only support IBM ACE v11 and v12. We have setup latest version v13 for IBM ACE in our environment. When can Instana support this new version?
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists