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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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.

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Threshold on the same metric twice within the same

Customers need the ability to threshold on the same metric twice within the same Event. It is VERY common for customers to want to setup two different Events (1 warning and 1 critical). They way they achieve that is something like the following: W...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Display information when data query times out in instana ui

In instana ui preview for log message template in AP is empty.This related to an Instana Ticket: Instana Support adviced to raise an AHA request:" adding this functionality everywhere where data queries time out in UI would be a new feature request."
9 months ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Delivered

Instana's Terraform Strategy

As user of Terraform and utilising: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/gessnerfl/instana/latest/docs We want to know how Instana is about to support this natively, and what are the plans/roadmap in regards to Terraform.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file

though the NCIM have cross-domain connections populated using cross-domain stitching. The ncp_dla does not fetch the cross-domain topology in the exported file. the cross-domain topology export is not implemented in ncp_dla.
10 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Add TADDM support to discover RHEL version 9.2 targets

The GA Release for RHEL 9.2 was May 2023. We are already doing the preparation to deploy it in our environment, and we need to qualify TADDM discovery on RHEL 9.2 targets.
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

DWC : isLate flag for job streams

isLate flag exists for querying late jobs in the plan but does not exist for job streams.
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
10 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered