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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.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Filter Kubernetes namespaces

In some cases, customers want to install IBM Instana host agent on K8s workers nodes from K8s cluster managed by third party and used by several clients (shared resources). If worker nodes are dedicated for a customer, it could be great to be able...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Instana WEB monitoring API key protection against malicious data ingestion

Currently WEB monitoring configurations on Instana are allowing anyone having access to the key used in the JavaScript configuration to ingest data. For security reasons it would be nice to limit the acceptance of data ingested by using a particul...
23 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Future consideration

Configure ACE Sensor to authenticate through LDAP

ACE RestAdminApi is configured to be accessed with LDAP authentication. While Instana is asking for local user. We need to be able to configure instana agent to access ACE using LDAP
3 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana should allow to raise Events -> Alerts based upon log messages

Instana currently relies on metrics to create Events which can raise Alerts. Applications often have some known error codes or messages which refer to specific issues that may not be immediately evident by some of the metrics collected by the solu...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Logging 0 Future consideration

Windows Agent should be able to use AWS sensor

Windows Agent should be able to use AWS sensor - as per the documentation, AWS sensor can be used only with Linux. The customer's environment is based on Windows, so now he needs to deploy another VM based on Linux which will casue additional cost.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Change/Enhance client behaviour for Instana EUM to prevent network peaks

With current eum config. potential network issues/overload are possible (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-mobile-app-monitoring-faq#what-happens-for-users-with-bad-internet-or-network-connections )Pl...
26 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Ability to Filter Traces with Custom Parameters

Under Analytics section, If we will have the ability to filter calls and traces with custom parameters that are part of the payload then it will enhance the monitoring and help teams in troubleshooting the production issues. This feature could be ...
26 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

OracleDB - adding support for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set

Hi, We have a need for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set to be added to the OracleDB sensor because we have customers who are using this character set which is not supported by default and because of that they will not have end-to-end visibility of t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Under review