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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...
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Add profiling information to Traces/Spans

Some other vendors like Datadog include profiling information (e.g. CPU hotspots, CPU lock contention, ...) to the Traces/Spans.This is very valuable information in case of troubleshooting.Are there any plans to support such a feature in the near ...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Add support for Memory allocation rate for .NET Core, Java, PHP, Ruby

The Instana profiling documentation states for which technologies Instana currently supports Memory allocation rate (Golang, Node.js, Python). The following are missing .NET Core, Java, PHP, Ruby. Link to documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Display summarized mainframe CPU consumption of all JDBC calls to Db2 on z/OS of a single frent-end request, and Instana dashboard can sort by this summarized CPU time.

Mainframe CPU consumption is critical data for application monitoring, currently Instana on z/OS can collect CPU time from SMF data for each JDBC call to Db2 on z/OS and all these data have been sent to Instana. It will be very valuable and helpfu...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Instana should support memory profiling for dotnet core applications

at present dot net core applications can show CPU profiling only. I could not have a view of memory profiles. that is why have to reply on manual profiling. Please provide this integration. One of out app is showing continuos increasing memory thanks
about 14 hours ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 0 Submitted

Support Webex Teams for AIOPS ChatOps

ChatOps would introduce a new way to collaborate that is one of the most important modernizations expected for this customer Operation
about 15 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Submitted

User defined Business App (ATD) should have more application components: Namespace, Workload Controllers, Clusters

AppDev personas want to interact with Turbo from their perspective: their application. The definition of this application is a hybrid set of services that come together to form a composite app. This application is frequently made up of hybrid set ...
about 19 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
1 day ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

add the Customer as an watcher to AHA

The customer is enquiring about the ability to track the progress of this RFE - https://bigblue.aha.io/features/IRISCART-2141 The customer currently is not able to access the AHA open for this enhancement.
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Submitted

Instana agent is not supported for K3S kubernete platform. Since this is a slim version and can deployed on IOT platform, we have seen customer are using this in Production

Instana agent is not supported for K3S kubernete platform. Since this is a slim version and can deployed on IOT platform, we have seen customer are using this in Production. This can be good candidate to consider for implemented and we have tested...
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted