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Support Java21

Hello, We would like the Instana agent to be able to supervise java21 (as well as virtual threads). Best Regards
5 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
10 months ago in Instana / Java 0 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

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Support of Kotlin coroutines 1.6

Hello, We recently updated Kotlin coroutines to 1.6 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

Permission to Enable/disable Heap Dumps create Option (JVM Backchannel Options) from Instana UI

Dear IBM Instana Development Team, I am sharing some insights and suggestions from our Instana software experiences. While we greatly appreciate the software's capabilities, we have identified a potential area for improvement concerning the Heap D...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Improve Redisson support for Java apps

Improve Redisson support for Java apps. By Github stars, Redisson is the most popular redis client for Java apps (amongst others like Lettuce and Jedis). However, Instana stopped supporting Redisson some time ago: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/insta...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Provide a way to disable Java distributed tracing on per app basis

The documentation shows a way to disable distributed instrumentation tracing for Java apps through host agent configuration: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=machine-java-configuration#disabling-automatic-instrumenta...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered