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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 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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Automatic link between Openstack Hypervisor and Computer Instances pages if on the machine is present an Instana agent

In a holistic view it will be very useful to have a link from the Openstack dashboards to the single agent page if the machine shown in the Openstack dasbhboard hosts an Instana agent too. In this perspectives the information produced by Openstack...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Create custom Dashboards / Panels with Sythetic results data

Teams want to see the status of single or multiple synthetic checks in custom dashboards for better overview.
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

Synthetic Secret Management

For Scripted Tests, there is a need for API Keys. These keys are secrets and need a limited visibility scope
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Monitor files into S3 bucket

We would like to have a way to monitor files into S3 bucket.As same as we use a normal file dependency, client has a need to monitor files into S3 bucket prior triggering a job/job stream.We see cloud as the future statement and would like to have...
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
9 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

k8sensor needs to support multiple backends

When using Instana, most of our customers require high availability. They assume that our SaaS operations are highly available based on our SLAs. But, when customers deploy self-hosted environments they need to set things up in an HA configuration...
10 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Filter based on risk category and description

Please add support to be able to create a group based on risk category (and description if possible) so that I can build policies that are specific to different types of risk. For example, I would like to be able to create a group and policy that ...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
10 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

GKE autopilot compatible

Instana Agent must be available in your GKE Autopilot environment.
10 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted