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Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Full support for Spring Integration framework within Java tracer

Currently, Spring Integration is not a fully supported framework. Some of the calls are supported, but not all.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

Instrument Sangria GraphQL library

We use the sangria library to expose a graphql server written in Scala, running on the JVM. We would like to be able to use Instana to see the details of the graphql call, similar to how Instana can instrument other graphql libraries.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Add support for tracing HTTP CONNECT method

Many organizations require the use of an inline user-space (e.g., Squid) proxy when apps connect to the Internet. It would be very useful for the Instana agent to instrument common Java libraries to capture not only GET, PUT, etc., but also HTTP C...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Future consideration

Support for Spring Boot 3 and IBM MQ / JMS Integration

As a customer using the following library: https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-jms-spring from the IBM MQ Team. We would like to see the tracing information for incoming JMS Messages, and those calling a DB. <dependency> <groupId>com.i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Java - Akka - Alpakka JMS Framework

Dear Instana Team, for the New Relic Migration, we have teams using the Java-based AKKA - JMS Alpakka Framework.It seems like this Framework is not supported / Instrumented by Instana.We noticed this because we do not see any incoming messages in ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Spring Remoting - HTTP-Invoker in Java Sensor

Motivation:-----------One of the biggest NR user Teams inside of our company is making heavy use of the Spring HTTP-Invoker functionality to do remote calls over HTTP.Instana does not support this at the moment, which causes the team to not see ca...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration