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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...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
3 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Enable URL/Hostname to be Supported to JS - Only url/path configuration is supported for now

The current EUM auto‑instrumentation issue is driven by unsupported selector filters specifically hostname‑based filtering. Since Tomcat auto‑instrumentation officially supports only URL/path match expressions, Need to enable to support for RL/Hos...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Adding script/ command to encrypt password for instana host agent configurations

Instana deployment: standard edition multi node adding a method to encrypt the password within the configuration file instead of using plain text password but using scripts/ commands not using hash vault or environment variable. Similar to the enc...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Controlling instana default events (change, online, offline)

if possible to shut down some change/online/offline events similar to the control over default events in the Events page. To clarify this, controlling change/online/offline events to be sent to the alert channel and appear in alert dashboard but n...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Exporting and Importing instana Events

It would be useful if we could have an option to "quickly" export configured perspectives/websites/events etc that we have set from Instana, maybe into a YAML/JSON/XML format, and then it can be imported again into an Instana interface. I think th...
about 12 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Request for Java Code Auto Profiling

Dear colleagues the same functionality was presented for PHP in the demo environment, our customer got understood it is applicable for every technology and was counting on it. Additionally, this feature has been specifically requested for Java Cod...
about 15 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

MQ sensor should open its local binding connection as MQCNO_ISOLATED_BINDING

On the case TS021288201, our client reported the issue that after MQ forced stop, Instana Agent prevent the restart of IBM MQ. 2/17 17:37:52:MQ force stop2/17 17:39:35:MQ start-> the following error AMQ8041S: The queue manager cannot be restart...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / MQ 0 Submitted

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

Select the authentication method at the Instana UI Login

Instana supports just one authentication method, this of course affects at Login and there is no other way the customer can select a different way to login, basically, if the current authentication method is broken for some reason, the customer ha...
5 days ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted