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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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.
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Review default resources for Instana standard

Dear Colleagues, we tried to install Standard Instana in production and demo modes on bare metal server in IBM Cloud and faced issues with logging to Instana backend: * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):* OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERRO...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need to check number of open files for Instana standard

Dear colleagues, We have a customer with Baremetal server for Instana who faced unexpected Instana behaviour after installing. The problem was that by default servers have default number of open files per user - 1024. It was hard to troubleshoot i...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

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...
2 days 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...
3 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...
5 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...
9 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

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