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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 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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Add Support for Spring Remoting - HTTP-Invoker in Java Sensor

Motivation:-----------One of the biggest NR user Teams inside of our company is making heavy use of the Spring HTTP-Invoker functionality to do remote calls over HTTP.Instana does not support this at the moment, which causes the team to not see ca...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Instana Event REST-API -> Add filter options for GET /events

Use-Case:----------The Client wants to get all active Events for a Team in his company to define a team's Environment/Services status.This status of all Events should be aggregated to one Status (if one has an error, Status is in error, else good)...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Merge/Group Availability Zones and Custom Zones on Infrastructure Map

For Customers it is beneficial to merge i.e. AWS services and EC2 instances in the group of the infra overview in Instana to understand quickly which hosts are relevant/heatly/etc. A couple of tickets was found with the similar request: https://in...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

To avoid disk getting full due to agent retrying failed attachements (Re : INSTANA-I-1077)

Although INSTANA-I-1077 has become "Not under consideration", we'd like you to reconsider by checking our new comment (explanation on our purpose of the request). Thanks. "Hi, Henning. Thank you for your time for INSTANA-I-1077. Before you close t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Grafana plugin: Support dashboard variables in query and metric field

Hello, I would like to use grafana dashboard variables inside query and metric fields. That way I would have only one dashboard in which I could show metrics for different applications by changing variable in dropdown. Best regards, ldrascic
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 3 Future consideration

Grafana plugin: Support regex in metric field

Hello, I would like to use regex in metric field in order to show one metric (e.g. Free pool size) for all applications in same graph/panel. Best regards, ldrascic
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

What’s needed: Root Cause Analysis is provided at the same time some delay is detected (applicable for Aurora MySQL & RDS).

[Ideal Analysis Function] What we’d like to request you is to add a function of analysis which is able to show the detection of some delay and its root cause at the same time (I.e. : root cause clarification at the same time of the delay detection...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 3 Future consideration

About adding available memory

In order to check the operation of the OS, please add the available memory calculated by the following formula. AvailableM=$(awk '/MemFree/{free=$2} /Buffers/{buff=$2} /^Cached/{cached=$2} /MemTotal/{total=$2} END {print ((free+buff+cached)*100)/t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration