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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...
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 6

Monitoring Weblogic - v14c not supported regarding IBM Instana documentation

Hi. Our big customer using Instana and core application on Weblogic. Recently they upgraded Weblogic ftom 12 > 14 but REGARDING Instana official documentation this is not supported: Currently supported versions are: 10gR3, 11gR1, 12cR1 and 12cR...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java 3

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET 4 Not under consideration

FR - Certificate Expiry Sensor

Hi, As an Instana user I would like the ability to have a metric showing the number of days until a certificate expires, including the ability to alert at x or y days until expiry, so that I can proactively prevent issues caused when this happens. BR
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Planned for future release

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Instana Backend (zLinux, Power, x86, OCP, k8s) Custom Edition should be offered on Redhat, IBM, and AWS Operator Hubs for our customers.

The operators necessary for installing the Custom and Standard editions would be available on Redhat and IBM Operator hubs.
21 days ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 Future consideration