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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 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...

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Latency Timings for PageTransistions

Instana monitors PageLoads and PageTransistions. For PageLoads we see Latency, Traffic, Errors. For PageTransision we also want to monitor Latency as it is available for for Page Loads. We want to have this metrics available for PageTransistions o...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Active Transactions running at threads in Pods on Kubernetes called as "X-Active" is required.

There are dominent competitors against Instana in Korea Market.All of them are providing the feature called as "X-Active" that monitors active transactions running in pods on Kubernetes whether or not their state are normal or pending and provides...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 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

Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Make the magnifier icon mean zoom

In any graph with a time axis, if you select a time range on the graph, there is a magnifier button which sends you to analytics and a ... menu with a clock button which zooms to the time range. I suggest you change this to have the magnifier icon...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see for Custom dashboard

In custom dashboard is there option to visualize value on pie chart widget instead of hover and see the value for Custom dashboard as it would be helpful for SRE team to visualize the dashboard.
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Prod: change in autotrace webhook version needs application to clean and redeploy(prod blocked)

The autotrace mutating webhook is only called when there is a redeployment.We would need to rewrite this into an operator to gain more control and actually observe the state to trigger a redeployment. This is a production blocker as every-time we ...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration