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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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...

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events does not have end state

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

POC-Arlo - Make all entities that existed over the selected time period visible in the UI

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Delivered

Calculation functions in Instana Dashboard using summarize(nonNegativeDerivative (sumSeries (Key)))

Ability to visualize custom metrics currently gathered in Graphite
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Delivered

Instrumentation support for Kafka Streams 5.5.0-ccs

Customer is using Java Wildfly Application which through JNI connects to RocksDB.They are using Kafka States Stores.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Number of Pods on "Top Nodes" widget or Nodes tab

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Kubernetes 0 Delivered

change the value of Nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" to larger than 128

the value of nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" is fixed with 128, which will cause the gateway pod failed to start when the length of baseDomain is larger than 128 with following error. # kubectl logs gateway-67965f476b-l8f45 -n ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Configurable ReplicaFactor for Kafka and Replica/Sharding for ElasticSearch in K8s Operator

customer has deployed instana in production environment, has deployed instana agents on several hundreds K8S nodes. the customer IT department is heavily using instana as their observability platform Architecture of Instana Deployment: the instana...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Delivered

Self service to create agentkey for Instana Tenant/Unit in Onprem

In self-hosted k8s based environment, customers would want to split their thousands of agent hosts into different tenants/units. It works like APM as SaaS but just for on premise. For each unit, a set of unique key are required per Instana support...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

IMS TMRA tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction between WAS on Linux, IMS TMRA, IMS Connect and IMS DC/DB. But because IMS TMRA is not supported to be tracked, so they cannot see the whole transaction. They want to have the solution by 2022 Q2.
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered