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Search results: Instana

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Give Instana Agent helm chart a possiblity to configure the path to containerd.sock

Instana Agent is expecting the containerd.sock in this directory on Kubernetes nodes: /run/containerd/containerd.sock As we are using an RKE2 K8s cluster containerd.sock is located in /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock instead which results in in...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Support recent versions of MongoDB Java Driver

We are using a Mongo enterprise 4.2.24 cluster and configured the mongo driver in our java applications. With a very old driver version like 2.4.0, we can see mongodb traces in our API calls. But with the latest 4.x driver version (we have 4.7.0 a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

make @instana/aws-fargate working with Elastic search 6.X

Hi currently @instana/aws-fargate is not handling Elastic search 6.X Could you manage this ?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Test Powershell support for Actions Beta

We have been told that Powershell should in theory work on windows hosts for the actions beta, but it's unclear how thoroughly this has been tested.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

analytics - dynamic column width

We use Instana to log behaviour of mobile app. the issue is even with large screen, and small font, the browser cannot display properly the column, in analytics, custom events, or analytics - http request : because all column have the same size, e...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Future consideration

Grace Period "None" Option

I set up an event to detect JVM Offline incidents and set it as a critical condition, when this is detected an alert is raised and sent to our Teams channel for my team to react to. Following a critical alert we get a grace period alert which is n...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Is a defect

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration