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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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Instrumentation support for RocksDB JNI 5.18.3

Customer is using Java Wildfly Application which through JNI connects to RocksDB.They are using Kafka States Stores.
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

POC-Arlo - MQTT metric monitoring

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 3 Planned for future release

Support for instrumenting mobile apps developed with Xamarin

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Prevent an agent with a valid key from connecting to Instana

The customer requested an ability to centrally prevent a specific agent from connecting. "The customer would like to be able to prevent a specific host from connecting to Instana so that they can prevent unwanted use of the agent key or an unwante...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delegate admin for creation of (ie) application perspectives based on the access scope a user has

When giving a user access based on a scope of entities it should be possible that the user within that scope can create his own application perspectives.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Future consideration

Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Create Application Perspective stuck in creating page if the user doesn't have Access to the APP

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Is a defect

Support for MapR Kafka Streams Library for producer and consumer

No description provided
about 4 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Not under consideration

Profiler support for vendor 'Private Build'

Profiler does not work when the vendor is Private Build. Feature request is to allow users to specify that the Profiler should still attempt to operate against the runtime if the runtime is supported.
about 4 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration