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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 Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Support Oracle Linux

We are trying to set up a PoC for Instana. The customer has Oracle Linux which they say is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux. Do we have the capability to set up an on prem backend with Oracle Linux?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Delivered

envoy sensors for envoy 1.19 with gRPC

we added Envoy >= v1.15 support to our libinstana_sensor artifact for distributed tracing in version 1.5.0.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Delivered

Improve trace context between Weblogic T3 RMI calls

Customer's request: To provide trace context between outgoing (A) T3 RMI calls to another Weblogic instance (B).Used protocol: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/e13721/rmi_t3.htm#WLRMI143Moving to https based protocol is not an option ...
over 2 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Numeric scale for sensitivity slider in Smart Alerts

a numeric value for sensitivity fo Smart Alerts is desired.Iteratively tuning the sensitivity of multiple alerts is complicated as there is no way to measure "how much" it has been changed or to compare sensitivities between alerts.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Support for Camunda tracing

The customer would like to have the ability to support tracing for the BPM application Camunda.
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Enable Instana AWS agent to collect CloudFront Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

The customer wants to enable an Instana (AWS) agent to collect CloudFront monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Infrastructure Explore in Grafana Plugin does not have a group by or metrics field

Hi Product Management Could we improve our Grafana plugin and add groupBy and Metrics fields to avoid manual filling filter with this information.
This seems to be the issue we were discussing in our meeting last week.  The API portion of the Enti...
almost 3 years ago in Instana 2 Delivered

Provide search feature in custom dashboards for sharing and endpoints

The customer wants to have a search bar to pick and choose the metrics we want.
almost 3 years ago in Instana 1 Delivered

Need Filter / Condition for Event API

The customer would like to have filter for Event API to gather events based on "type" ("incident" "issue" or "change"). Business Use CaseCurrently there are thousands of events are getting created on the Production system. We are trying to use eve...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

events does not have end state

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered