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Instana

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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z Under review

Improve filtering options in Custom Dashboard tables

Custom Dashboard tables in Instana have limited filtering capabilities. They do not support wildcards, short string searches (e.g., 2‑character suffixes), or basic operators like contains, starts with, or ends with.For use cases such as Oracle Gol...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface Under review

Monitorng Nutanix AHV - Monitoring of critical hardware events and virtual machine state

Many organizations want to move from VMware to Nutanix and these monitoring capabilities are fundamental for a Nutanix monitoring sensor, ensuring platform availability, stability, and early detection of issues. As a business partner, we manage hu...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Nutanix monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For Nutanix technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only (like the implementation for Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

SDK custom service tags

Hey. There's an ticket about this ideia: TS020581290 We want to separate the tags for the SDK custom service instead of bringing all together, cause a mess when creating dashboards and events.
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing Under review

Need Air-gapped support for the k8s IDOT - Self-Hosted Custom Edition

Since October 2025, the FIS(Fidelity Information Services) customer has been working to enable distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry (OTel) integration to achieve end‑to‑end traceability across Istio, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy and related components....
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes Under review

Expose DB2 JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values in Instana SQL traces (optional / configurable)

For enterprise z/OS customers running mission‑critical DB2 workloads, Instana SQL visibility is functionally limited because AutoTrace, by design, does not capture JDBC PreparedStatement bind variable values, rendering all parameters as ?. While d...
about 2 months ago in Instana / DB2 Under review

OpenStack monitoring - Possibility to restrict monitoring of VMs

For OpenStack technology, customer is asking to have the possibility to enable monitoring for selected VMs only. (Like the implementation of Idea INSTANA-I-4349 regarding vSphere technology).
28 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

Ability to turn off Instana Agents via an emergency shutdown switch (API‑Triggered)

Hi, In certain high‑risk or sensitive operational scenarios, our organisation needs the ability to immediately and remotely turn off all or selected Instana agents. Currently, there is no API-based mechanism to trigger an emergency stop of the age...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent Under review

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