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Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known.

Bug reports are not publicly available and it is not possible to determine if the trouble that is occurring is known. Some fixed bugs are listed in the release notes and github update comments, but unfixed and in-progress bugs are only shared with...
10 months ago in Instana / Common 3

Add information for K8s/OCPs to the release notes in the Instana documentation

We are very pleased to see the release notes for Instana Agent/Sensor/Tracer being added.However, users of Instana with K8s/OCPs should also gather the following information. These can currently only be obtained from the individual githubs. YAML h...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Add a section for alerts in the host view

When searching for alerts set for a VM/host, you have to navigate to alerts and filter through all the alerts to see which may be applicable to that host. It would be easier if you could navigate to the host and see which alerts are tied to that s...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 4 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Provision of Instana backend api function endpoint to retrieve agent sensor versions

I would be very useful to have an api endpoint in instana backend that delivered agent sensor versions.
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Group synthetic tests for better overview and navigation

It would be nice to create groups and assign tests to one or multiple groups to make it easier to find tests for team members or stakeholders of a certain test topic.
10 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Service Mesh Support request

GKE provides Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, which is google managed version of Istio. Now Instana already supports Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh, but not Google Cloud Service Mesh yet. We used this Google Cloud Service Mesh on GKE and reques...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Support OracleDB for Golang

Currently our agent support most of the general databases, would be great if we can support OracleDB so it valued customers to see insightful traces. At the mean time, Dynatrace is also releasing the support for Go-Oracle-connector libraries.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana grouping in Analyze Calls for Smart Alert Event by blueprint template

If you jump from smart alert event to analytc by clicking on "Analyze Calls" the predefined grouping seems to be defaulted to 'by endpoint'.It would help a lot if grouping would be done by templated blueprint criteria.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 6 Not under consideration

When sending alerts from Instana to Opsgenie, please send them in plain text.

This is a customer feature request. Please review it. The related case is TS016826822. When Instana is introduced, the alert transmission structure is "Instana -> Opsgenie -> Slack". When sending a notification message from Instana to Opsgen...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 Future consideration