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Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
1 day ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Support for tracing IBM MQ on IBMi

Dear colleagues, Following our documentation in terms of IBM MQ tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=mq-tracing there is a way to configure User Exit for different platforms but IBM i. In MQ documentation it is said sin...
1 day ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Add Instana instrumentation support for GeneXus HTTP client libraries (including Ron’s Http-Client)

Problem A customer application built with GeneXus is being monitored using Instana. The application performs outbound HTTP calls to backend services (Bantotal services) using the HTTP client implementation provided by the GeneXus runtime. During a...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

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. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing Future consideration

Enabling and Monitoring IBM ACE Tracing for ISO 8583 TCP/IP Integration Servers

We need to enhance the tracing capabilities of IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) to support ISO 8583 over TCP communication. This improvement will build on ACE’s proven stability and scalability by enabling more detailed, end-to-end visibility of t...
26 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

SDK custom service tags

Hey. There's an ticket about this ideia: TS020581290 We want to separate the tags for the SDK custom service instead of bringing all together, cause a mess when creating dashboards and events.
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing Needs more information

Mask database queries

Hi, We encounter the problem that some database query's may not be visible for everyone.The monitoring is happening on application-side. An Instana agent on the database is not necessary. We have for example a Kubernetes cluster with 10 namespaces...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Functionality already exists