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Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Needs more information

Extend thread dump with viable thread details

The Instana thread dump does not contain the following meta information of a thread: Priority (prio): the priority of the threadJava ID (tid): the unique ID given by the JVMNative ID (nid): the unique ID given by the OS Please add these details as...
8 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Auto detect JMX values

Requested is a feature where we have auto-discovery and i.e. have an ability to select which Metrics to show/activate JMX params are very difficult to reach (many clicks needed)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Tracing support for APIGee Hybrid

The Apigee product is "Apigee Edge". We are using Apigee as SaaS so we do not know about the current version. Regarding the use case:Apigee is our central API provider, e.g. for our AppEngine Single Page Applications but also all of our Middleware...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for Play Framework 3.0

We have upgraded to Play Framework 3.0 in our application and now the Instana monitoring no longer shows application metrics. We are aware that the supported Frameworks list only shows support up to Play 2.8: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-ob...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 0

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 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Webmethods 5.1 support

Our customer ISBANK wants to have webmethods 5.1 to be supported.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Supporting Apache Thrift (Tracing)

We need support for org.apache.thrift:libthrift:0.19.0. In order to get full tracing.
8 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Need to configure MetaSpace for applications hsoted at EKS.

Dear Team, We are unable to get the metaspace configuration at instana agent for our java based application running at EKS.
8 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

IBM JVM Profiler Support

Currently IBM JVM Profiler is not supported https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/java-profiling/ and it makes application servers hosted on AIX websphere impossible to profile and this is needed feature to optimize java applications
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 5