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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Ping-checks: Add option "HTTP-method"

Hello, we are using your ping checks and just want to implement them more efficiently. Therefore it would be very helpful if we would have an option for "HTTP method", e.g. GET, POST, PUT, and so on. And also the option "body" is needed then proba...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid abnormal termination false positives during Helm deployment

Use-case: During HELM deployment the old pods are expected to be stopped with a SIGKILL. So the event Instana is raising is technically correct, but absolutely expected. This FR is about adding more logica to such K8s events and Instana events avo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
almost 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 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...
5 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...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 1 Future consideration

ServiceAccount GCP Helm

Hello, We would like to use Serviceaccount annotation for GCP in Helm Instana Here is a merge request. https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/pull/16 Best Regards
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Andoid SDK - Ability to reset Instana.sessionId programatically

Current implementation of Mobile Application Monitoring creates a session upon each fresh start of the mobile app. It would help greatly if we could programatically reset this sessionId.
6 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Planned for future release