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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 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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Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
16 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Need ACE OTEL traces to correlate to the proper ACE infrastructure

I'm working with a customer that has deployed ACE with OpenTelemetry tracing on traditional servers. When we diagnose problems and drill into the traces, the link from the trace to the Infrastructure links to the Host Agent for the ACE server. Thi...
8 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Synthetic Test Metrics for SLI/SLO

As a customer using Synthetics, I want to be able to have SLI/SLO information in Instana. Currently the use of Metrics from Synthetics is not possible.
5 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Manage custom event based on permissions.

Hi, Banca d'Italia is asking a way to disable the custom-event (creation/modification/deletion on particular app perspectives and infrastructure entities) for a user that has not the privilege to see some application perspectives and infrastructur...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 4

Need databases names as services

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors self written application which connects to local database. We had permission issue which caused to create separate service instance for every database from received calls and customer liked the presentation. ...
14 days ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Support for IBM DataStage

Hi team, While searching Instana documentation I couldn't find IBM DataStage, this means is not supported and we need to be able to monitor this technology: https://www.ibm.com/products/datastage Can we add support for it like other IBM products? ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Historical Data Migration - Onprem

With a transition for self hosted users from Docker to K3's (Standard Edition) we are seeing alot of customers asking for a data migration tool to save historical data. I understand that configuration is being worked at the moment, but it would be...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Under review

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
2 months ago in Instana / Python 2 Planned for future release

Enable website automatic instrumentation for NGINX

Hello, Currently it is possible to automatically instrument website monitoring on the Apache. As our organization is currently in the process of migrating part of the webservers from Apache to Nginx, we would like a possibility to have the same fe...
22 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration