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Instana

Ability to use wildcards/regex to ignore/blacklist processes from monitoring

Hi, During the rollout phase we need to exclude a serious amount of batch jobs and other processes, most of the java based, from monitoring/tracing. The documented process: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=cha-configuring-ho...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Enable configurable Instana backend and agent communication ports instead of requiring default 80/443 ports.

Many enterprise customers operate Instana in highly restricted network environments where standard HTTP/HTTPS ports such as 80 and 443 may be tightly controlled by centralized security or network teams. In these environments, customers may be requ...
11 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement

Support Azure AI Foundry OpenAI-Compatible Endpoints in Instana LLM Gateway

We would like to request an enhancement to IBM Instana LLM Gateway to support Azure AI Foundry's Azure OpenAI-compatible endpoints, enabling customers to use their own enterprise LLM services (Bring Your Own Model / Bring Your Own GenAI). Azure AI...
21 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability Future consideration

Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Support for tracing IBM MQ on IBMi

Dear colleagues, Following our documentation in terms of IBM MQ tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=mq-tracing there is a way to configure User Exit for different platforms but IBM i. In MQ documentation it is said sin...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

To include "limited" network protocol into dependencies graph

hi, "potential" customer wants to see the link between databases server at the netwok topology diagram, aka service dependencies graph.i understand network connections could be messy, so if instana agent can limit and configurable, i.e if we can c...
3 days ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

Add capability to "group-by" on multiple fields when creating a pie chart widget with queries to "Application" -> "Calls"

We are trying to migrate our old Datadog dashboards to Instana and the queries need this feature to migrate fully.We have queries which need group-by filters on multiple columns. Right now the widgets have capability to add only one group-by filte...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Request support for non-UTF-8 encoding configurations in the HTTPd sensor.

The HTTPd sensor is requesting support for non-UTF-8 encoding configurations. The Instana Agent is unable to handle httpd.conf files configured with non-UTF-8 encoding, so it is repeatedly adding lines to include in the httpd.conf file.
4 days ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Oracle DB Tablespace Usage Metrics Interval Change

There is a limitation in the ability to adjust the interval for Tablespace metrics collected by the default oracle sensor. This leads to high CPU usage and slowdown of performance which can ultimately interfere with regular operations.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

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

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