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Instana

Request for Local User Registration (A feature to add users without requiring an SMTP server)

When adding (inviting) a local user to Instana, an SMTP server is required. In an air-gapped environment, there may be cases where the Self-Hosted Instana Backend does not have an SMTP server or cannot communicate with one. I would like to propose...
7 days ago in Instana / Access Control Needs more information

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

Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing Submitted

Access to public Artifactory repositories via web browsers is restricted due to company security controls.

Our company laptops have recently been migrated to a cloud‑native environment. Previously, we used specific URLs with dedicated credentials to download Instana and MQ‑related software. However, under the new setup, the credential pop‑up prompt is ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Add an option to export the list shown in the "Comparison Table" view of the Infrastructure tab

There is a need to export the list of hosts in the "Comparison Table". This support will be really handy when you have multiple hosts are defined in the system. Also, noticed that the default option shows 50 per page. If we select to show 100 per ...
about 1 hour ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Need better alert content

When Events trigger and alerts are send to end users, there is a need to have important information as part of the alert. For example, let's say I setup a threshold to monitor for sustained CPU usage greater than 80%. When the Alert is sent, it is...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Leverage traceparent Header for Kafka Message Correlation

Using a commonly accepted header would better align with industry norms, and provide consistent convention for programmatic logging and correlation.
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers Submitted

Support for Custom Alert Channels in Instana

Today, to integrate Instana with other tools we rely on webhooks. However, the target tools are often not expecting the Instana payload format, which forces teams to develop custom adapters to transform the data before it can be consumed. In our c...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Alert Submitted

Need improved t-shirt sizes for Standard Edition

We need to improve our t-shirt sizing for Standard Edition. We need sizes that allow our sales teams and customers to choose the right architecture to meet their needs. There are a number of key requirements and reasons that we need this data. Our...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Observability Support for IBM QRadar SIEM Appliances Infrastructure Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for IBM QRadar

QRadar customers cannot observe their SIEM with Instana due to lack of official support. While a basic Docker Instana agent install on QRadar Community Edition successfully discovers infrastructure components (host, 7 Podman containers, 21 process...
about 21 hours ago in Instana / Agent Submitted

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