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support for template variables

support for template variables in grafana
about 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Built-in Event: Abnormal termination correlation event with deployment markers

Kubernetes is gracefully terminating the resources. In new releases, our resources will be replaced with new ones. Kubernetes sends SIGTERM signal to pods.This signal lets the containers know they will be shut down soon. This behaviour causes lots...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Instana should integrate with DB2 DBA/Management tools for deep dive export DB performance for troubleshooting and administration.

Instana customer have to use 3rd party DB management tools, like DBMariine, to retrieve more detail DB2 performance information for troubleshooting. Suppose Instana should integrate DB2 DBA related tools.
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Add Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

Show all information of the selected time period in the Kubernetes views

If a time period is selected and the user want to view Events and Pods of an kubernetes object (Deployment/Service/etc.) Instana only shows the Pods and the Events of the Pods that were "online" at the endpoint of the time period. For many users t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Implementation of log suppression function with "CRI-O"

We would like to deal with this problem as soon as possible. Since I want to suppress the output of Instana Log, I was previously taught how to support it. However, the adapted method is log suppression for "containerd" and cannot be applied to lo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Differentiate between Agent and JVM offline events.

It is not possible to differentiate between a JVM going offline and if there is a communication drop with the Instana agent. This has been discussed with IBM support TS013050872. Request for service improvement to be able to tell the difference so...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration