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Customisable links on Instana home dashboard

Currently, the Instana Home Dashboard provides quick-access links to resources such as “Install agents or collectors,” “Add user,” “IBM documentation,” “Release Notes,” and “Community blogs.” However, enterprise Instana users often require direct ...
12 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 2 Under review

Adding Cluster Operator to monitoring by Instana IBM Kubernetes sensor

It would be very useful to have the ability to monitor the status of Cluster Operators in a Kubernetes cluster. Adding an additional tab to the Kubernetes status (see picture 1) Adding a separate sensor for monitoring Kubernetes Cluster Operators ...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Need to suppress Memory Alert usage for Standby pods

Here in openshift as MQ is Native HA, we have three pods configured out of which 1 will be active and other 2 will be standby pods. We have configured Memory usage alert based in namespace filtering. Here in MQ, Standby pods use more memory than a...
6 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Kubernetes 1 Under review

Add option for aggregation function (avg, max) for custom metrics

Hello, Can you please add an option to chose aggregation function when displaying custom metrics? In attached example you can see that metrics are collected every 1 second but when you choose larger time interval then instana automatically aggrega...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Under review