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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 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...

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Support AWS Cloudfront

Hello, Would it be possible to monitor AWS Cloudfront services in Instana ? Regards, Quentin
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Add time shift comparison on a weekly base

Update: I've just seen this is already implented :) Dear Instana Devs and POs, We really like the newly introduced "Time Shift" feature of Instana. However, for our use cases, the options "Previous Timeframe" and "Yesterday" are often not sufficie...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

To be able to monitor AlmaLinux

Currently AlmaLinux was not supported by Instana. Currently, the number of customers using AlmaLinux is increasing as it is the successor to centOS. So, it will be greate if Instana could monitor AlmaLinux.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered

Include multiple prometheus metrics(same type but from different envs) in one event.

There are about 50 kinds of prometheus metrics that we need to monitor for each env. When we use instana to create events for these metrics, we found that including multiple metrics in one event is not supported by either UI or API. That means eve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure / SRE 2 Delivered

Add Smart Alerts to Mobile Real User Monitoring

Mobile User Monitoring is lacking the ability to alert on error conditions like: Latency of http requests Requests errors Low number of sessions opened High number of session opened Please consider to include the feature shortly.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Relative deviation for custom events metrics

There should be a functionality to define the relative deviation instead of absolute deviation when creating custom events. For example, when we create a new custom event for "Entity - Application" and "Metric - Call count", we don't want to choos...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

Get container info button is available for containerd clusters

In clusters using the docker runtime there is a "container info" button in the UI - on the container details page - which shows environment variable values. This is missing for containerd clusters.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Delivered

Support RabbitMQ Engine for AmazonMQ

We want to migrate our self-managed RabbitMQ to managed AmazonMQ with RabbitMQ engine. Please add support for RabbitMQ engine to you AmazonMQ sensor covering the capabilities of RabbitMQ monitoring (including monitoring of queues).
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Custom dashboards: Copy or reference a widget from one dashboard to another

Background and context When creating many custom dashboards there is often the need to re-use a widget from one dashboard to another. One example is when creating a summary dashboard where widgets are re-used from several more detailed dashboards....
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Delivered