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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.
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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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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

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

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
11 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Under review

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Need periodic reports in different formats

Dear Colleagues, we have a constant demand from our customers regarding reporting capabilities. Please consider creating additional sharing option for custom dashboards. Something like periodic report, that generates a PDF (CSV, XLS, Plain text) f...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 7 Planned for future release

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Adding proxy configuration in Instana Sensor for AZURE

We need to use a proxy definition to reach Azure from the Instana agent on which there is a Instana cloud service agents In the AWS conguration is possible to specify a proxy We need the same option for AZURE In the INSTANA documentation To config...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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