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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
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Planned for future release

Add customizable columns to the event page

It would be nice to have customizable columns on the events list.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Future consideration

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Auto Upgrade JVM with Instana

Please update Java(Azul or Eclips) when updating instana via the agent update. As vulnerabilities appear instana should update the Java it uses and allow for the update to be seamless
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Built-in Event on docker container - CPU Usage

Hi team, Currently, on the docker container entity type, there is only one built in event (on the memory) : https://instana.io/s/oAKdnEMqQtuTNHKaq1JBAw We would like to know if it's planned to have a built in event also on the CPU usage which woul...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration