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Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Need to be able to send out reports in PDF/CSV by email

Dear Colleagues, we have a tender where customer is interested in sending regular reports from Instana to management with statuses and current numbers. We have ability to create custom dachboards and generate PDF/CSV of them, please consider addin...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

an option to send PDF export for Dashboards by email and a schedule this email

adding an option to Instana to export the dashboards and send it by email to non-Instana users. this will be helpful to share dashboards with managers, stakeholders and non technical team. also adding the option to schedule this report to send a m...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Planned for future release

Export analytics of calls and subcalls as image and as PDF-report

Provides complete information for ticketing systems without granting access to Instana. Enables communication with 3rd party vendors. Especially important to analyze calls with a large number of subcalls.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 7 Planned for future release

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Add support for SAP Jco connector

Adding the ability to trace the entry spans from SAP Jco connector increases the versatility of Instana. Customers can benefit from tracing additional technologies and this keeps Instana competitive in the market against it's competitors.
6 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release