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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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

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Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 2

Get metrics from Instana to use in Argo Rollouts

As is known, Argo is currently the top opensource tool to make deployments. Argo Rollouts extends the capability of ArgoCD and provided features as blue/green deployment or canary deployments. As you might know Canary deployments work in the follo...
9 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Instana Azure sensor should support proxy configuration

Instana Azure sensor should allow to configure proxy. Exactly the same approach should be taken as for the AWS sensor described here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-amazon-web-services-aws#through-agent-confi...
2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 6 Future consideration

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
12 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists