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Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
9 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Alert when sensitive data has been collected

Because IBM has a large number of customers in the Financial and Healthcare industries it is important to have the ability to alert when potentially sensitive data has been captured. For example: social security numbers, dates of birth, passwords,...
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Allow blocking of entries to Agent Log File

Instana Agent Logs specifically for both Solaris and Windows OS that monitors our JBOSS platforms is showing the same error against all active PIDS. This is not seen in the Instana SaaS Dashboard for the AP or in the JBOSS logs, it is only within ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor / Tracing 1 Future consideration

support for extracting traces from multiple instances (running on two different ports)

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound services, such as sending an outbound MQ, or calling another Web Services which resides in a distributed system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration