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Add support for Google ADK

Currently we are using Google ADK and LiteLLM but to get traces to the Instana backend we have to use OTel which limits observabiltiy and functionality. We would like to request Google ADK support so that tracing works "out of the box".
about 1 month ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Delivered

Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Delivered

Event closing action in automation

Hi, Currently there is no closing action which fires when an event is closed. We need this to tell the central event management console that an issue is resolved. It will nag the resonsible team until a closing event is received.
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Delivered

Overcome limitation on monitoring Kafka endpoints

Due to the fact that JVM stack traces are increasing the size of the data sent to back end, and raising our budget, we are configuring some Kafka topics to not being monitored. The problem is that there is a limitation on the number of topics to b...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Delivered

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 4 Delivered

Add Oracle Database Driver Support (oracledb / ocdb) in Instana Synthetic Tests

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests only support drivers such as mssql and mongodb, which limits the ability to directly test environments running on Oracle Database. Adding support for the official oracledb (and optionally ocdb) Node.js drivers wo...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Associate synthetic tests to websites and mobile apps using the Terraform provider

Synthetic tests can be associated with applications, websites and mobile apps using the UI, but the terraform provider only supports the association with applications. We would like a way to get the association done for synthetic tests as well wit...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Delivered

Provision DNS & SSL tests using the Terraform provider

Http action & scripts can be provisioned using Terraform. This is not possible right now for DNS & SSL tests.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Delivered

Instana's Microsoft SQL Server sensor not supporting client-side tracing for PHP application for customer

Customer- SBM Limited has a PHP application instrumented with the Instana agent on CRM APP Server where database calls are not appearing in the Instana traces. SQL queries to mssql are missing. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0...
4 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 4 Delivered

IDOT release needed on kubernetes/OpenShift for OpenTelemetry support

One of our customers is attempting to transition their monitoring from a typical Instana deployment to a pure OTEL solution. They would like a fully supported solution rather than leveraging open source OTEL collectors. Today, we have IDOT collect...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Delivered