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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 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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Optionally test links as well as page components

Testing a page and the CSS, JS and images that make it up ensures the page is "complete" and works well for transactional websites. For content heavy websites, it's often helpful to also test the pages linked to from the test page. That is especia...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

Enable support for Tetrate Istio Side-Car tracing

Hi Team, Arlo has submitted a request to implement a support feature that involves tracing the envoy-proxy container. The request is documented under the support ticket number TS013593419. The support feature is required to be based on Tetrate Ist...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Enhance the MFT agent dashboard

These "missing" metrics were not decided to show in the agent dashboard when the sensor was created:Total Timed Out Transfers The count of total timedout transfers through the agent.Total Retrying transfers The count of total retrying transfers th...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support crash collection for react native mobile applications

Alrajhi Bank team not satisfied with the existent crash reports of Intana while monitoring the mobile applicationClient is comparing Instana crash reports to Firebase crash reports. To them, Firebase is much more advanced, and this is making it di...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 4 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Tracing 3 Future consideration

gRPC Support for Synthetic Endpoint Tests

As a customer, I want to use Instana Synthetic Test to monitor the availability for my gRPC Endpoints.
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

'Current Transfers' need to be searchable with full transfer ID

Currently the 'Current Transfers' (in the coordination queue manager dashboard, for MQ MFT) are only searchable by last 12 characters as it shows only the last 12 characters (...236505bdbd2d instead of 414d51204d4654352020202020202020c0e1236505bdb...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Export Synthetic test details to PDF

We are interacting with multiple third-party API endpoints and we regulary face the question of availablility, response times, and error rate for these endpoints. Especially when analysing incidents we need to clearly see how stable and responsive...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Email integration with the atlassian status page - Need dynamic configuration to be added as placeholder in email alert notification .

We would like up and down keyword to be send in email subject to integrate instana synthetic monitor with the atlassian status page as the email component only works in that way. Atlassian requirement : https://support.atlassian.com/statuspage/doc...
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration