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

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We need to perform signing request using Private key

Hello Team, We need to signing the message with private key of the sender and verify the message to the public key of the sender. For signing purpose we don't want to implement public key of the sender. We tried it with private key of the sender w...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Not under consideration

Feature to set the limit based on the number of failed attachments (Instana)

[How it is now] When an agent fails to execute its attachment (attachment error in occurrence of some event such as full GC), the agent continues to retry the attachment every 10 minutes repeatedly until it succeeds. [What's needed] It'd be great ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook

Open a service IP per tenant to send events via Webhook, so that you don't have to open the entire list of IPs given by the instant support according to the region and then run the risk of adding more IPs without inform us and that the alerts do n...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Ability for RBAC to enable Objects on Team Scope

Use-case: To allow more flexible rules for allowing people access to specific entities it would be great to instead of selecting the entities (app perspectives, namespace, etc.) one by one, to allow a query builder approach in which we can use log...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Instana Google Cloud platform support for python slim buster image

Hello, I have been trying to integrate instana with GCP and our project uses python's slim buster image. I tried it with Alpine image but a lot of our dependencies are not being supported by it, like PYPI wheels, pycryptodomex, etc Please provide ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 2 Not under consideration

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows

need agent pour docker windows installed on host windows, ticket support Request #28566
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Using Instana fully non-root after installation (docker)

We are expecting to use Instana fully non-root after the installation including Instana CLI commands such as start, stop and update.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Configure maintenance flyouts

User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration