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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

support for template variables

support for template variables in grafana
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Built-in Event: Kubernetes Node condition status event correlation between kubernetes node scaling events

Once our cluster scales down, usually, our node/nodes will be terminated status(or unknown). But it doesn’t mean our nodes are not healthy. It just scales down. We are getting many mentioned event notifications, and our engineers are missing the a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Built-in Event: Abnormal termination correlation event with deployment markers

Kubernetes is gracefully terminating the resources. In new releases, our resources will be replaced with new ones. Kubernetes sends SIGTERM signal to pods.This signal lets the containers know they will be shut down soon. This behaviour causes lots...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Planned for future release

AWS Timestream DB Monitoring

AWS timestream DB monitoring
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release