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BWI self-hosted Use RedHat catalogue for DB Operator

Background: The currently provided DB Operator versions have to be pulled manually and publically from the internet Refer to the installation guide for using Kubernetes Operator in official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observ...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Provide a complete oc-mirror ImageSetConfig for each Instana version

Description In a disconnected installation of OpenShift, the oc/oc-mirror tool to mirror is used in OpenShift and all RedHat catalogues to a mirror registry. The easiest, pushed procedure by RedHat and mostly used approach in the meantime, is to u...
about 13 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Beeinstana Backup and Recovery

If the beeinstana volume fails or is for any other reason compromised it needs to be possible to use snapshots for beeinstana operator or some custom form of backup and recovery.Most other k8s operators are capable of passing a datasource part lik...
16 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need improved process for Standard Edition air-gapped installs

We need to improve our processes for air-gapped installations of Standard Edition. Working with a customer, we encountered two different problems related to being in an air-gapped environment. First, there is no viable way to update the license in...
23 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Bi-Directional Turbonomic Integration for Multiple Tenant Units

Currently the Bidirectional Turbonomic integration only caters for one Instana target within Turbonomic. In this customer's environment, Instana monitors several OpenShift clusters, some of which hosts multiple environments (dev/test/sit) within t...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

AzureApp service

As we could see, your Azure App Services are discovered and we are able to see the metrics. You were missing the tracing so we did the troubleshooting for that. We could see that our InstanaProfiler is in place and after checking the logs, there a...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Is a defect

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

kubectl instana plugin should support license verify feature

Same as docker "instana license verify", kubectl instana plugin should allow to verify the license during the installation and later. One of the customers (Freedom mobile) asked about that feature
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Self-managed Instana backend support Tencent cloud managed Kafka service as the datastore.

A large number of customers run their workloads on the public cloud platform. At the same time, many of our customers in GCG region will use the resources provided by Tencent Cloud to build their management platforms, such as self-managed Instana ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
9 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration