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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 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

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Filtering App Perspectives on Tags in child calls

We currently have a few use cases that mean we need to create an App Perspective that filters on a tag that is set on a child span of a parent span i.e. deeper within the code (we cannot pass it back up to the parent call). We create SLI metrics f...
1 day ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
2 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
4 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Exporting the list of agents including FQDN and related informaiton

1. How to export all agents, host FQDN, agent version and related informaiton using GUI? 2.Is there a API that I can use to export the Agent version, FQDN, agent-status into a file
3 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic 1 Future consideration

Instana Agents Installation on FIPS Enabled Hosts

Instana agent installation fails on hosts that have FiPS enabled. The only way that we found to install on these hosts is manually using the following command: sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest Since this command is bypassing a security meas...
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
14 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

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...
8 days 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...
8 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted