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Support BAW on CP4BA in Instana Business Monitoring

Currently, IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) running on Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) is not fully supported in Instana Business Monitoring.BPM calls from BAW are detected but not processed correctly — the bizops-writer does not c...
6 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 0 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)
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 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

IBM ACE trace custom tag endpoint IP and port Telemetry

When you had trace in ACE 10 and 11 using user exit, you had the ability to have grouping and control of who invoked the APIs. When you switched to using opentelemetry ACE 12, you can no longer see that grouping. We want it to be incorporated agai...
7 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
3 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

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 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...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review