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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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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
12 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Extend MQ events

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue Manager events that we need to monitor: "NOT_AUTHORIZED" "UNKNOWN_OBJECT" “Queue_Type_Error” “Default_Xmit_Queue_Type_Error” “Remote_Queue_Name_Error” “Transmission_Queue_Type_Error” “Transmission_...
12 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Agent Installation: Git-based Configuration needs a way to set a custom CA for Kubernetes-based deployments

When deploying the Instana agent via helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster and utilizing the git-based configuration, there should be a way to update the CA certificates in the container for self-hosted, self-signed Git repositories commonly used in ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

send Instana events to Pagerduty queue (New alert channel type for Pagerduty)

Currently the integration with pagerduty is done via Pagerduty services (You need to create one integration key per service). But there is a different way to send events to Pagerduty which is to send it to a Queue. Reasons for this requests: possi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

New Joined Hosts to new default zone

Dears, How can we set / configure Instana to add new joined hosts to a certain zone instate of "Undefined Zone"? We need all new joined hosts to be member of "New servers" zone for example instate of "Undefined Zone"... and later we can configure ...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
6 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 0 Under review

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
6 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

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