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

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Config option to change the frequency of db requests

We are using the Instana Agent with the PostgreSQL sensor.With the log analyzer pgBadger and pg_stat_statements we noticed that the Instana sensor queries the database every other second which puts them on top of the most time consuming queries in...
10 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

Ability to setup email alerts on APM usage and active licenses in Account & Billing.

We have requirement to setup email alerts or any alert channel on APM usage and active licenses on a particular tenant whenever the license usage is more then 85% we would like to sent an alert to a concern teams.
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Add support for INP

Currently you support data on other CWV, when will you be adding INP?
10 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

We are looking for an Instana Sensor to get resource and tracing metrics from MarkLogic DBs

This would be useful in complemting our services which call the ML databases.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration