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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED 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?

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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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Dashboards: Add variables (dropdown menu) to custom dashboards

Hello, Can you please add variables (dropdown menus) in custom dashboard so that we can have one custom dashboard on which we would be able to show same data but for different application/host/process/jvm.... Those dropdown menus should also suppo...
11 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Ability to setup event on multiple conditions

The possibility to compare / set into relation more than one value in an Event definition? I mean I have Data Source, Metric, Operator, ... - but only for _one_ parameter. What I need is something like this: Value A > 70% value of B -> Alert...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Additional ActiveMQ metrics

Additional ActiveMQ metrics (Memory Percent Usage, Store Usage, Health, Current Status, etc.)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Ping Agent / Status of Ping

I want to check a process using your Ping Sensors. Therefore I defined the Ping Sensors , which works OK (see screenshot). But how do I create an Event / Condition for "Status of ping (status)"? (see screenshot). I assume status = 200 is OK - but ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

MFT: Current Transfers should show source and destination file

We would like to have both the source file AND destination file on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard in the 'Current Transfers' section. Currently the 'Current Transfers' table in the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' das...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Collect kubernetes metrics health SLIs

Since Kubernetes 1.26, you can configure Service Level Indicator (SLI) metrics for the Kubernetes components binaries. Once you enable them, Kubernetes will expose the SLI metrics in the /metrics/slis endpoint https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/...
8 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Future consideration

Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Under review