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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 Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Auto Profile support for AIX

Auto Profile support for AIX https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=monitoring-profiles https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=processes-configuring-profiling From the above link: At the moment Aut...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Enable support for Tetrate Istio Side-Car tracing

Hi Team, Arlo has submitted a request to implement a support feature that involves tracing the envoy-proxy container. The request is documented under the support ticket number TS013593419. The support feature is required to be based on Tetrate Ist...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Support Instana backend on VMware Tanzu

Our customer BWI just closed a 5-year 35 mio contract with us which includes Instana. When we reach production we will probably have thousands of agents installed and the German Armed Forces (which BWI serves) will add another few thousand agents....
10 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Add Agent Zone and tagging option for ALL agent installations from the backend user interface (UI).

Most agent installation types do NOT allow adding a custom zone or custom tagging when installing the agent from the UI. Azure appears to be the only one that does. The zone and tags are simple configurations that have to be manually added to the ...
16 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Enhance the MFT agent dashboard

These "missing" metrics were not decided to show in the agent dashboard when the sensor was created:Total Timed Out Transfers The count of total timedout transfers through the agent.Total Retrying transfers The count of total retrying transfers th...
1 day ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

Trace Analyze: Show full log message when expanding a Log entry in Logs Panel in a Trace.

Current Issue: In the current layout of Trace Analyze, the log panel of a trace displays truncated versions of log messages. Often, these excerpts are too brief to provide sufficient context or understanding of the underlying issues. To view the c...
2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Alrajhi Bank team not satisfied with the existent crash reports of Intana while monitoring the mobile application

Client is comparing Instana crash reports to Firebase crash reports. To them, Firebase is much more advanced, and this is making it difficult to replace Firebase reports by Instana.
2 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

gRPC Support for Synthetic Endpoint Tests

As a customer, I want to use Instana Synthetic Test to monitor the availability for my gRPC Endpoints.
4 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
24 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

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 ...
4 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted