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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...
1 day ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitoring FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP is a new technology that improve php work and may replace it in the future and expected to migrate most current php application to it.
about 1 hour ago in Instana / PHP 0 Submitted

Add a CVE report in json format into each new agent rpm

Our organisation requires us to keep software on latest or latest-1 release of all software.Due to the rapid release cycle for the static agent rpm (every 2 weeks), this puts a lot of pressure on teams to keep updating the product - we have thousa...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

CPU Utilization Graph Broken Out by Subsystem with Stacked Visualization & Color Customization

Customer is requesting the ability to break out CPU utilization by application subsystem or service and display it as a stacked bar chart. The customer also requests the ability to customize color assignments for each subsystem in the stacked view.
6 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

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....
4 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Create Automation to Refresh and Update Access Scope of Instana Teams Every "N" Minutes

In large-scale environments where Instana Teams are used to logically segment access across dynamic infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, multi-cloud, ephemeral workloads), the resources assigned to a Team’s Access Scope can change frequently. Howeve...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Documentation for the new Gateway API feature of Custom Edition on AKS, replacing NGINX.

The Kubernetes community has officially announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX project, which directly impacts long-term platform stability and security. According to the Kubernetes announcement, Ingress NGINX will only receive best-effort ...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units

Need the ability to access data across multiple Units. Currently, when a user is logged in, they can only see one Unit at a time and have to continuosly switch back and forth between units. There are two reasons they want visibility across multipl...
1 day ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Want the ability for Teams and Roles to only be accessible within a single Unit

Today, when you define a Team or Role, they are available across all Units within a tenant. That makes it difficult to control what people have access to. For example, within Unit 1 a person might need administrative permissions like creating Smar...
1 day ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Need the ability to add users to Teams and Roles prior to them logging in for the first time

The customers has many hundreds of users that will be accessing Instana. They are trying to automate the permissions for the users (Roles and Teams). Unfortunately, the APIs will not allow you to add a user to a Role or Team until the user has log...
1 day ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted