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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 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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Ability to connect Prometheus endpoint to applicable Instana entity

When collecting Prometheus Endpoints within Application pods all "prom applications" are listed on the host level. This isn't practible as it is not feasible to link them anyhow to the entity (in this case the pod).
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Ability to alert on % K8 deployment memory limit/requests instead of static byte value

Ability to alert on % memory limit/requests instead of static byte value.This applies to: nodepodnamespacedeployment cpu & memory limitscpu & memory requests
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

Make Trace Latency = Trace Duration rather than duration of Root Span

In asynchronous processes this can disguise the true duration of a business process and prevent Instana from being able to alert when customers are having a bad experience.
over 4 years ago in Instana 0 Planned for future release

Sensor/Metrics for AWS Auto Scale Groups

Would be really useful to map scaling activity across time/Alert on maximum scale reached. ASG could be also used to determine online/offline. 
over 5 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Cisco Catalyst L3 switch C9300 and C9500 48UXM: new driver for ITNCM

Is request new driver for devices: - Cisco Catalyst L3 Switch C9300-48UXM- Cisco Catalyst L3 Switch C9500-48UXM To be managed by ITNCM.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release