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Ben Stern

Need to capture application payloads via tracing. The customer stores business data in the application payloads and they want to be able to view that data within Instana and build custom dashboards and write thresholds against the business data. T...
8 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Ability to augment Instana Autotrace traces with OpenTelemetry spans without the need to use the Instana SDK

Hi, As a company we want to move towards OpenTelemetry in order to be ready for future developments. In some application we need to augment traces with some special information (e.g. compiled SQL statements and others) which we want to do with OTe...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

SDK Custom Reactor-Netty Httpclient support

We use the reactor as an exit calls on the trace, but currently instana does not support the reactor httpclient, so we can't see an part of the tracing
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

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.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Customization of trace analytics columns

Right now when looking at traces in the Analytics page there's only 3 columns: Service, Timestamp and Latency. This idea is to be able to customize this list to include other attributes and thus modify the sort order.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review