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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...
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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Add Missing Chart Types in Dashboard View

For the New Relic Migration, we need to be able to have the same Dashboards with Instana as we had with New Relic.We noticed that some Chart Types are missing.And sorted them by our usage:1. Table,2. Bullet,3. Histogram (dyn. Bucket def.),4. Funne...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

Add Formulas and Operators for Calculation into Query Editor ( Dashboard and Alerting)

Use Case:----------- Create new metrics on the fly via calculation (e.g percentage / relative metrics from count numbers)- Sum up values on custom metrics / Business calculations. Desired Solution:------------------- Add Calculation options into t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring of MSSQL

It would be useful to have the ability to remotely monitoring SQL only.
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 2 Needs more information

Custom Events for Multidimensional Data

For the New Relic to Instana Migration we need the New Relic Feature "Custom Events", which is used by the our Teams via the NR SDK to store custom multidimensional metrics. These multidimensional Metrics are used for: - adding technical Metrics, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0

HAProxy Tracing

Tracing capabilities for HAProxy, similar to what is already available for nginx
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana Agent/Sensor to monitor the ISAM & ISIM physical appliances

We have the IBM Security Access Management & IBM Security Identity Management applications which are hosted on the physical appliances. We are looking for an Instana Agent Sensor to connect to the physical appliances and monitor the applicatio...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Node 4 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release