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Add span filtering for Hazelcast

Hi, I would like to have ability to filter tracing spans that relate to Hazelcast. Something similar is already done for Redis (described on Optimize data ingest in Instana). This would allow to further reduce data ingestion. Best regards,ldrascic
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

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

Implement sensor for observability of applications developed in PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder remains a crucial framework for massive, traditional ERP and financial systems in sectors such as government, healthcare, and banking. These applications are the backbone of many organizations, but they lack modern observability. With...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Enable Native Trace / Call Payload Visualization and Aggregation in Instana Dashboards

Problem Statement Customers using Instana for application performance monitoring cannot natively visualize or aggregate trace/call‑level payload data (custom tags, request/response attributes, business fields) in dashboards. While payload data can...
5 months 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

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration