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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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PHP 8.2 support

PHP 8.2 was released on 8 December 2022. Instana only supports 8.1, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
about 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

Ability to enrich alerts regarding websites

UseCase: Mydealz-Alertingwe always get a lot of traffic via Mydealz (for example with price errors). This can put too much load on the shop. That's why we want to be able to automatically block certain ProductDetailPages.Alerting is currently alre...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Synthetic monitoring - Be able to do security request (auth)

Currently, it is possible to create a test suite in javascript where the auth data (token) is set through headers.It is true that this token that is generated must be done using basic authorization data (client id, secret...) that are exposed in t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Allow for increases in SLI quota for Instana.

We have run into a hard limit for the number of SLIs that are able to be created in Instana. When we asked to have the limit increased, we were told by the Instana engineers that this isn't possible currently. Its a hard coded limit that isn't abl...
about 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Delivered

Add Repository Parameter for Proxy Artefact Servers

Problem:---------- The current Instana Synthetics Helm chart is using static URLs and paths to the container images. In an Enterprise Context, it is not always possible to access external Docker repos directly. Therefore teams has to use an intern...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered

DB2 Log_space percentage monitoring.

In this use case the customer Julie Yates wants to monitor log_space from her DB2 servers based on percentage. Since her team has multiple DB2 servers and the log_space may differ from one database to another, the ideal monitoring for this metric ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

Add tags to k8s-sensor

We would like to add tags to the new k8s-sensor in the same way we add tags to Instana agents. In our case we are using your Helm chart to deploy Instana in kubernetes clusters and we are using the k8s-sensor: https://github.com/instana/helm-chart...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered