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If an agent cannot connect to the backend, all data will be cached until agent can be reconnected

With our current ITM6 agent there is caching of both alerting and historical metric data meant for the WPA.. With Instana being a streaming only agent with all processing on the server side, in the event of an outage or agent communication issues ...
9 days ago in Instana / Agent / Self Hosted 0 Under review

make an automation to automatically delete ES indexs of data so that /data wont fill up

we have a lot of data, /data is filling up very quickly and than the system doesn't work, we dont want to allocate more and more storage, and the data in old indexs files are not relevent anymore, so automating deleting old ES data indexs would he...
18 days ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Need to support HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration

Dear Team, at the moment Instana agent is not able to recognise HCD Datastax Cassandra configuration and it looks like the agent sees the container and JVM inside it, but doesn't collect metrics from Cassandra instance. this make a gap between cas...
25 days ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Monitor MySQL v8.4 DB

To monitor MySQL v8.4 Database and collect detailed metrics, we need to configure the Instana Agent with defined credentials as referenced in this is part of configuration document. With that in mind, we see the message: "Client does not support a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Naming vSphere datacenters in Instana

Customer is monitoring the vSphere datacenters in Instana. All the vSphere datacenters are reporting with same name in Instana, which leads to customer NOT able to monitor properly or confused between the vSphere datacenters. Is there any feasibil...
about 1 month ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Support for on-prem SignalR

Customer is using signalR in one of their core applications. Without native support of on-prem SignalR, the customer is not able to use Instana to trace the complete call stack.
about 2 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Ability to disable all sensors and discovery, and only enable those that we require

Our requirement: We want the ability to disable all sensors and their discovery routines globally, and then explicitly enable only the ones we need. This would mean no discovery or idle checks for technologies we do not use, and no unnecessary sen...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Under review

I want to retrieve only the necessary cookies when capturing cookies using custom HTTP headers.

Although custom HTTP headers allow you to capture cookie information, retrieving all cookies makes the data difficult to read. I want to capture only the necessary information within the cookies. In AppDynamics, you can capture only a specific sub...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Ability to augment Instana Autotrace traces with OpenTelemetry spans without the need to use the Instana SDK

Hi, As a company we want to move towards OpenTelemetry in order to be ready for future developments. In some application we need to augment traces with some special information (e.g. compiled SQL statements and others) which we want to do with OTe...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Under review