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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...
10 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 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 ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Need to capture application payloads via tracing

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...
about 2 months 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...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 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
3 months 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.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Unitary tagging

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

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review