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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
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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Springboot-Sensor: Datastore connections to be monitored

Hello, the "jboss as"-sensor collects information about connections to datastores and provides it on the related dashboard (see example on attached screenshot).We need the same for springboot, therefore please add the capability to springboot-sens...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Cognito User Pool Identity Provider (IdP)

We are in discussion with potential customers that want support for AWS Congnito User Pools. We already support several IdPs and this is a very popular one we currently don't support. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cogni...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

SLO based alerts

We think it should be possible to create alerts based on defined SLIs and SLOs. Currently, it's not possible to alert if something is consuming an available error budget too fast over a certain time or that we consumed the error budget already com...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0

Being able search Instana using the api name and then be able to drill down to related artifacts

When requests comes into Moneygram’s third-party API Gateway service, Moneygram would like the events to relay and show custom variables like the following three columns: “API”=“detailLookup”, RT (response time)=198ms, and service= https://ws.mone...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Add support for Blocking sessions - Cassandra

Verizon is requesting support for providing number of and list of blocking sessions in Cassandra.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Documentation Upgrades

Recently went through installing an Instana Kubernetes cluster and we had significant issues due to the documentation. It is too vague, misleading, and the examples given are often confusing or incomplete. We got answers from support individuals t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Extend thread dump with viable thread details

The Instana thread dump does not contain the following meta information of a thread: Priority (prio): the priority of the threadJava ID (tid): the unique ID given by the JVMNative ID (nid): the unique ID given by the OS Please add these details as...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration