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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 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

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Override the Entity in the Event SDK

We are using event sdk within our OpenShift environment. https://www.instana.com/docs/api/agent/#event-sdk-web-service We are able to trigger events from within a pod, but they come in listed as an entitytype of Host. We would like these events to...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Multiple Choice for HTTP Status Codes alert

We were working on smart alert and just want to monitor 501,500,503,400,404 error. But don't see the abilities to add specific codes. Multiple Choice would be grate option to select alerts.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Functionality already exists

Infrastructure metrics in custom dashboards

The customer would like to create views on infrastructure. To be able to do so we would need to configure views also infrastructure e.g. aws ec2 rds hostsUse case would be: As an operational team we would like to build customize metrics dashboards...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Functionality already exists

RBAC - Add support for AD Group to Instana Group mapping

The customer would like to manage users by linking AD Groups to Groups within Instana so that I do not have to recreate teams and roles which already exist within Active Directory.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Make Instana Agent removal completely clean. Currently, there is no uninstaller when performing Static install, so differences remain in the registry.

When instana agent is installed statically on windows, updates and writes are made to the windows registry when start.bat is used, which cannot be removed.This is because there is no uninstaller for static installations. Enterprise-grade customers...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

Allow report export on Events data

As an SRE, I want the data from Instana when looking for Incidents (Event Tab) to be exported automatically and not just being queried inside Instana.
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Extend Custom Dashboard (Widget) capabilities

Customers, time and time again, are looking for a way to chart specific information on a custom dashboard. This allows them to quickly extract data that Instana is already capturing and review in one place, then drill down from there. For this cus...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 0 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Getting Monitoring Issues via Instana API

The customer can get event types such as incident, issue, change using Instana API, but they cannot get monitoring issues which are very important for them. Due to these monitoring issues, the monitoring done by Instana on technologies in producti...
11 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists