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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...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Allow the date range columns to be translated in custom reports.

OOTB report is translated the date range columns , but Custom report is not transrated the date range columns . I would like to be able to translate the date range columns of custom reports. the date range columns:you can add to a table: Months Ye...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 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 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 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...
about 1 month 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 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

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...
19 days 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 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages

delete data in report using standard editable table based on a filtered selection including multiple pages. Currently we can only delete either all data (with the button) or selected rows using a check box on the current page.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Close build early

Some builds take a long time, around an hour or more. For such builds if there is a problem with input like the uploaded file is not correct and there is an error reading file then the build should not start and error out or finish early. This wil...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review