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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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...

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Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

A couple of requests from the customer for enhancing the colors on Custom Dashboards:* Colors palette should stay stable: Currently a refresh in live mode can return a new color for existing metric lines.* Re-use colors across widgets: If a metric...
about 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Make SLO status more clear using Red/Orange indicator

Customer want to use the big number widget in status dashboard using SLI / SLI data source. While using this if the SLO is less than 100% and greater than 99.95% they wanted to keep an Orange color and for the less than 99.50% they need a Red colo...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Fire an alarm when the number of running servers are below minimum

Customer would want to create a custom event that will fire an alert when the number of running servers is below the minimum expected. Use case: They got 4 running different servers all the time that are autoscaling. This custom event would need t...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Ability for fine granular control which Prometheus metrics are captured

To avoid hitting the 600 metric border for Prometheus metrics customer has found it difficult to only use the "metricNameIncludeRegex" value to include metrics. They are seeking a way to EXCLUDE metrics which would be connected to Include with a l...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Tensorflow-serving support (orig. ticket title "multiple autotrace plugins")

Customer need Tensorflow-serving support.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana Active User information in Instana itself

The customer would like to be able to get a view of how many daily/weekly/monthly active users are using Instana. Having a view on this according to role/group/team would also be useful.
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 2 Future consideration

Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
about 4 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration