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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...
21 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

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

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

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

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...
4 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...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 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 ...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

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

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