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Enhance Instana or Instana agents capability to cache data, during Instana backend upgrade

Hello Team, we are reaching out to request an enhancement to improve data retention capabilities during Instana backend infrastructure upgrades. Recently, during our self-host air-gapped environment Instana backend upgrade, we observed that all In...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have a "quick export" of configurations in Instana

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 3 Not under consideration

GlassBox integration to see the Instana backend tracing correlated to the end user sessions recorded by GlassBox.

The customer want to understand better the beckend behavious starting from the GlassBox recorded sessions.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Modify or Clone / Duplicate "builtin event"

The built event work in most of the cases but for some specific environment some values need to be adjust in order to avoid false positive. Instead of disabling the builtint and create a new one from scratch it would be nice to have a "clone fonct...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration