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RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Support for Tracing Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP

Customer using Istio Ingress Gateways on OCP cannot trace calls going through this component, losing visibility on the latency and balancing provided by this component. Adding this will complete the view end-to-end of a call entering an OCP cluste...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Support for NGINX 1.25 Alpine tracing on K8s/OCP

Right now support is available up to 1.24 alpine. We would need support for 1.25 alpine to trace calls going through the NGINX running on K8s/OCP
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring NGINX on Windows host

I've noticed that the monitoring of NGINX on Windows hosts is currently unavailable. Therefore, for clients using NGINX on Windows, this becomes a vital factor to take into account.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Trace Analyze: Show full log message when expanding a Log entry in Logs Panel in a Trace.

Current Issue: In the current layout of Trace Analyze, the log panel of a trace displays truncated versions of log messages. Often, these excerpts are too brief to provide sufficient context or understanding of the underlying issues. To view the c...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Support is needed for auto-profiling for Java on Power Linux

Many customers use Power Linux as their production platform. In this case, the platform is OpenShift on Power Linux. The customer is running WebSphere (java) on the platform and needs the ability to get deeper into the code to understand where tim...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Instana should natively support tracing of Microsoft AKKA framework

We have a large deal at Kaizen Gaming in Greece that uses AKKA and the competition uses it. Kaizen is a gaming company expanding rapidly, now covering 12 countries in Europe and US and planning to expand in Asia in 2023. They have 1.500 employees ...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Java method tracing pre-defined options

Instana is unable to determine the time/performance at the Java “method” level. Instana requires either of the two of traces to be enabled to capture the method level performance, 1. Configuration based SDK trace: No changes on the application cod...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release