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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...
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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Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System

Support installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Integrate Apdex

Can Apdex scoring be integrated into Instana metric scoring? Apdex is an industry standard to measure users' satisfaction with the response time of web applications and services. It's a simplified Service Level Agreement (SLA) solution that helps ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Planned for future release

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Planned for future release

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Allow blocking of entries to Agent Log File

Instana Agent Logs specifically for both Solaris and Windows OS that monitors our JBOSS platforms is showing the same error against all active PIDS. This is not seen in the Instana SaaS Dashboard for the AP or in the JBOSS logs, it is only within ...
7 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor / Tracing 1 Future consideration