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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 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...

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Configure MTLS for IBMMQ

The Use case behind this is that the client needs to configure MTLS for IBMMQ, and needs to provide the certificates (and password/secret) via JKS files. Basically trying to accomplish this in the helm chart: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ibm-mq/9.3...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / MQ / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Compatibility for Java Profiling/Profiling on IBM Power (specifically on Linux)

This would be useful as it gives Power users (Dillards specifically which is a deal size of 108,480) access to java profiling for specific insights that they are looking for into the code. This is a dealbreaker request for them. Thank you for cons...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Planned for future release

Support is needed for auto-profiling for Java on Power Linux

Many customers use Power Linux as their production platform. In this case, the platform is OpenShift on Power Linux. The customer is running WebSphere (java) on the platform and needs the ability to get deeper into the code to understand where tim...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Better UI for Smart Alerts and Alert channels

We have discovered that without a rigid and detailed naming convention for smart alerts (including global smart alerts), we are encountering many issues as administrators to figure out which alerts are being fired, and which ones belong to which A...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Smart Alert routing

Currently we have several custom payload values (mainly K8s Service and K8s Pod Labels) which we send along with alerts to PagerDuty, and in pagerDuty, routing logic is applied based on these custom payload values. As discussed, it would be great ...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Allow report export on Events data

As an SRE, I want the data from Instana when looking for Incidents (Event Tab) to be exported automatically and not just being queried inside Instana.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Instana should natively support tracing of Microsoft AKKA framework

We have a large deal at Kaizen Gaming in Greece that uses AKKA and the competition uses it. Kaizen is a gaming company expanding rapidly, now covering 12 countries in Europe and US and planning to expand in Asia in 2023. They have 1.500 employees ...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Extend Custom Dashboard (Widget) capabilities

Customers, time and time again, are looking for a way to chart specific information on a custom dashboard. This allows them to quickly extract data that Instana is already capturing and review in one place, then drill down from there. For this cus...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Functionality already exists

EUM Geography granular representation

We have a custom GeoDB Database that provides detailed geo location for each request from the EUM and mobile apps configured. These include longitude and latitude coordinates (just like Maxmind's GeoLite2 database), as well as finely granular name...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Capgemini needs to monitor their applications running on Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming)

I am working with a client named Capgemini that needs visiblity on their z-hybrid applications. During our scoping session we discovered their developers develop applications via Microsoft PowerFX (no code/low code programming) which sits on top o...
10 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration