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My ideas: Tracing

Extended Query size in On-Prem Backends

Instana at the moment only collects the first 4KB of a query. Expanding the query capture limit beyond the current 4KB for Self-Hosted Instana deployments would unlock significant value for both customers and our own troubleshooting capabilities. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Need to be able to trace some fields from body

Dear colleagues, Our customer is very interested in monitoring and tracing some body attributes and parameters. Like transaction details for development and troubleshooting. also would be useful to monitor a handled errors when for example header ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

I want to retrieve only the necessary cookies when capturing cookies using custom HTTP headers.

Although custom HTTP headers allow you to capture cookie information, retrieving all cookies makes the data difficult to read. I want to capture only the necessary information within the cookies. In AppDynamics, you can capture only a specific sub...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Enable native distributed trace continuity across AWS Lambda functions orchestrated by Step Functions

We are implementing a serverless architecture with the following flow: API Gateway → Lambda → Step Function → Lambda Instana correctly traces the Lambda functions individually, but the distributed trace is broken when execution crosses the AWS Ste...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review