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Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Create a new standard role for Credentials only

In some cases, for MSPs, the customer has not yet moved to a CSP/MSP agreement within the hyperscalers. In those cases, the customers own their credentials and environment in the hyperscaler. If the customer is planning to move to a CSP/MSP agreem...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Support for Temenos

We would like to request support for monitoring the Temenos Transact (T24) core banking platform within Instana. The customer is running Temenos Transact (T24) using a combination of: TAFC (Temenos Application Framework for C), and Java components...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Add Comments to Price Book Rules

Adding comments to price book rules would make it easier to track the intended effects of each price book rule along with changes and adjustments made over time.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Future consideration

Enable MSP Control Over Sample Dashboards During User Creation

In MSP and reseller environments, MSPs often manage AWS reservations and savings plans on behalf of their customers. Currently, the EC2 reservation sample dashboard is enabled by default for all newly created users at the customer level and cannot...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Future consideration

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration