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instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Add support for SAP Jco connector

Adding the ability to trace the entry spans from SAP Jco connector increases the versatility of Instana. Customers can benefit from tracing additional technologies and this keeps Instana competitive in the market against it's competitors.
5 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Please add the Workstations Status code on DWC Listing workstations. eg MDM (IJ MDEA) or FTA (LTI JW MD) BMDM (LTI JW MD A)

quick and easy view to see if the workstations have not got their correct status codes. Also we know where the EventProcessor is , without clicking multiply times to discover it. (simple GUI)
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Retention of JVM data after change in PID/ID

When an Application release, update/change, or outage occurs, all JVM data for the process ID running prior is lost in Instana. This has been confirmed as correct functionality within Instana through ticket "TS013919515" "It is expected behaviour ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Planned for future release

Job/schedule report in table format rather than just dump filr in IWS format

if any team wants their scheduls/job details in table format like ABC job runs at this job,with this depedancy(list of all depedanies),part of this jobstream etc etc so this will be easily reable/understanble for normal user than checking and unde...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

increasing workstation or dyanmic pool name name lenth to as much as max size

Current mac charchater size is 16 character , but with dynamic pool , 16 characters are not enough for name as many client have Many dyancmi pool so setting diffewrnt name by following stabndad as well is very difficult so I would suggest to chang...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

We are requesting that the DWC time field support the more conventional 12:00 - 12:59 AM/PM and/or 24 hour clock value.

An inconsistency was discovered in the DWC Workload Designer that impacts time fields, such as Earliest Start, Latest Start, Deadline, etc. We are unable to specify any value between 12:01 and 12:59, whether AM or PM. Specifying 12:00 is allowed. ...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

JMX Metric unit labeling is confusing at best

FROM TS017727981 We are using JMX metrics for datasources # Java & Custom JMX com.instana.plugin.java: jmx: - object_name: 'oracle.ucp.admin.UniversalConnectionPoolMBean:*' metrics: - attributes: 'borrowedConnectionsCount,availableConnectionsC...
11 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Under review

Custom metadata for definition objects

We would like the ability to add custom key/value metadata to all object types in the database. We utilize a lot of custom scripts to monitor and maintain our IWS system. This is useful in scripting scenarios where you need to make different decis...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release