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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...
7 days 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...
28 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Automatic use of certificate for Infrastructure management

When accessing Infrastructure management, a self-signed certificate is currently used. Infrastructure automation appears to discovery a certificate from the OpenShift cluster and works well, but Infrastructure management reports a the site as "not...
over 1 year ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Get LDAP attributes from podified Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management (ManageIQ) documentation https://www.manageiq.org/docs/reference/latest/methods_available_for_automation/index.html#user-user includes methods to get users LDAP attributes values. However, methods do not work when using p...
over 1 year ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

IM: Support custom buttons on VMs and Templates page

Currently custom buttons for VMs are only available on the Compute ->Infrastructure ->Virtual Machines -> VMs This is not very intuitive as the view for virtual machines defaults to: Compute -> Infrastructure -> Virtual Machines -&g...
over 1 year ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Optimize download when installing in an offline environment

When following the documented installation procedure for CP4AIOps Infrastructure Automation offline deployment, an extremely large download file is produced. This download contains multiple versions of operators and components and requires conside...
over 1 year ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review