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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...
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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Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

TuxedoApp Application Dashboard - Update View

Under the prebuilt TuxedoApp Application dashboard view, we should add another column under the Tuxedo Service List section that shows the Tuxedo Server name that the Tuxedo Service is part of. Reference the attached screenshot named screen1.jpg ...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

AWS Tags not getting captured for Servers where IMSDV2 was enabled..

We have configured Disk Space events on few servers to alert on Disk Space utilization, but the alerts not triggered though the Disk Space threshold exceeded the limit. When verified we noticed that tags are missing for respective servers, and we ...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and 3.4.x using /v3 endpoints

As per documentation instana is still using the /v2 endpoint to monitor etcd. /v2-API is deprecated (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12913) Monitoring support for ETCD 3.3.x and newer using /v3 endpoints should be added.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 Delivered

Java Tracing support for Spring Boot version 2.7.x

Currently, the db tracing breaks for spring-boot services with version 2.7.X. Calls against a MongoDB are not captured by Instana.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered