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Official Support for multiple tenant units for Self Hosted Custom Edition

Even the concept of Tenant Units is documented publicly on the installing self hosted custom edition documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=ice-installing#required-resources-custom-resource-definitions) - we...
8 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review

CRI-O Container CPU Usage Percentage

ISBANK wants to retrieve and be able create custom events based on CRI-O Container's CPU usage percentage. For CRI-O Containers, would like to use "cpu.used_percentage" just like "memory.used_percentage". The "cpu.used_percentage" could be calcula...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

vSphere sensor should be able to monitor multiple vCenter environments

Most customers have multiple vCenter environments. With the current design, customers must dedicate multiple VMs in order to monitor multiple vCenter environments. This is a waste of resources and means that the customer must dedicate multiple ser...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Future consideration

Azure HD Insight Monitoring Support

Now, Instana can't support HD Insight Service monitoring via Azure API. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/hdinsight/ Many customer have HD Insight usecase of IoT environment.
8 months ago in Instana / Azure 2

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description.

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description. For example threshold is configured for generate the event if utilization is more than 80% then what was exact utilization that time (like 81%, 83% or 87% etc)
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration