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Integrate Instana with Slack using chat.postmessage API.

To integrate Instana with Slack, Instana documentation suggesting to have webhooks. But our environment does not support outbound webhooks and to post messages to a Slack channel we need to use chat.postmessage API. Could you please suggest workar...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
over 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Support for Apache HTTPd in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for Apache HTTPd, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
10 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Add support of SLES15 on zLinux for Apache(IHS) tracing, to suppport Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring

We want to use Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring, through Apache HTTPd tracing module. Now our IBM HTTP Server v9 is running on SLES 15 on zLinux. Please provide the support of SLES15 on zLinux. Now we only support SLES 12 on x86-64 arch...
8 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2 Delivered

Security Vulnerability Management

Hello, It is very important to have a unified security insights & compliance dashboard and vulnerability management capabilities consolidated within the Instana APM / Observability solution. Besides application performance monitoring and proac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations / Security and Compliance 1 Delivered

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC

Instana cannot capture the IMS JDBC calls by default if application uses this jar file.IMS uses two APIs for accessing the IMS data; the first one is JDBC 4.0 spec, and the second is the DL/I API. The IMS team confirms that JDBC implementation is ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

Be able to set priority in the Service Now integration (alert channel)

We currently set priority, it seems, in an arbitrary manner. However, its seems that the priority in SNOW is actually based on two other fields: business impact and urgency. This request is to be able to set an impact and urgency field on SNOW ale...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered

Be able to set various fields in the Service Now integration

Currently, we can open a SNOW ticket via our SNOW alert channel. But there is no way to set certain fields (like Category and Assginment Group). This request is to be able to set these certain fields.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 2 Delivered