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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...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
over 3 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Add Support for node18 with Lambda Runtime Native Tracing

Maximum Node version currently supported with Lambda is 16, as can be seen here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/243?topic=kinesis-aws-lambda-native-tracing-nodejs#supported-runtimes Node 16 is end of life 2023-09-11, with likely...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 0 Delivered

Custom dashboards: Copy or reference a widget from one dashboard to another

Background and context When creating many custom dashboards there is often the need to re-use a widget from one dashboard to another. One example is when creating a summary dashboard where widgets are re-used from several more detailed dashboards....
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

AWS Lambda ESM Support

Currently, the NodeJS instrumentation for AWS Lambda only supports CommonJS modules. As of earlier this year, AWS Lambda supports ES Modules which bring a variety of benefits. Because of this, we're having to manually trace NodeJS lambdas.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Delivered