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Get container info button is available for containerd clusters

In clusters using the docker runtime there is a "container info" button in the UI - on the container details page - which shows environment variable values. This is missing for containerd clusters.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Delivered

Support RabbitMQ Engine for AmazonMQ

We want to migrate our self-managed RabbitMQ to managed AmazonMQ with RabbitMQ engine. Please add support for RabbitMQ engine to you AmazonMQ sensor covering the capabilities of RabbitMQ monitoring (including monitoring of queues).
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Custom dashboards: Copy or reference a widget from one dashboard to another

Background and context When creating many custom dashboards there is often the need to re-use a widget from one dashboard to another. One example is when creating a summary dashboard where widgets are re-used from several more detailed dashboards....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x and v3.10.x

We need support for RabbitMQ v3.9.x (customer currently have 3.9.13) and v3.10.x. RabbitMQ v3.9.x is currently much more important but for a futureproof v3.10.x should be supported as well.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Delivered

Make Website Metrics available in SLO Widget

Make Websites metrics available in SLO Widgets. Stats like "First Contentful Paint", "Page Views", "Time to First Byte", and "OnLoad Time". Currently only Application perspectives are supported.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

Support AWS API Gateway

Customer asked if Instana could extend their monitoring capabilities by adding AWS API Gateway to the supported technologies.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Time Shift in K8S and other views

It would be great to have "Time Shift" (from Applications) to other views. In particular it would be really useful at a Kubernetes Service/Deployment/Pod... level to compare the CPU/memory/etc. usage based on previous periods especially comparing ...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Delivered

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
over 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Action Script support for IBM i local monitoring

I tested action script (Bash or Python) from IBM i native agent (local monitoring), but the error "cannot identify the OS" occurred. Please add the function to support action script on IBM i host agent.
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered