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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Feature Request - Internet Explorer 7 Compatibility for Instana

We are requesting the implementation of a new feature in Instana to ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 7. Our current configuration involves code injection at the F5 level, transitioning from the previous IIS level injection Observations:...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring FileNet with Instana

We want to monitor FileNet product by using Instana. We can monitor FileNet calls using the power of Instana.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
6 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Synthetics Tests granularity below 1 minute

As a customer, I want to ensure that my endpoints are available using Synthetics. Also, as a customer, I would like to have several measurements per minute to exclude temporary connectivity problems. A workaround would be to set up multiple tests ...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change Instana Tenant Names and Add Description

Need ability to change tenant names displayed without impacting monitoring of applications and add description along with tenant names in Instana Tenant Switcher page. Please Note : No modifications in the URL's is required as it would impact moni...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Not under consideration

About hiding the Managemet menu

For pods in production and disaster environments, there is a function that allows you to restart and reboot from the Management menu displayed on the pod screen of Instana. Since it is an environment that anyone can touch, the target was accident...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 4 Not under consideration

provide release marker time and scope focus

Currently when choosing a release in time picker the time focus is set with span around release time but selected scope is kept. It would be very helpful to be able to select also release scope and being pointed to scoped monitoring, e.g. the chos...
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 4 Not under consideration

IIS Reset dependency for .net framework application

For the IIS hosted applications as per the Instana documentation it is required to perform IIS reset to properly instrument application. We want to eliminate the dependency to perform IIS reset.
7 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration