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Add hours to SLO Objective lenght

We have a KPI that monitors the login failures and we need to define a SLO between 8 AM and 10PM, but with the current length options we cant do that. If its possible we would like to have the option to select specific dates that reoccur every day...
3 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
12 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Under review

Ability to compare APDEX against the previous week, previous window, or previous release.

By comparing APDEX across different timeframes or versions, users should be able to quickly spot performance trends (e.g., improvement, decline, stability) and identify any unexpected deviations or anomalies that require further investigation. The...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Under review

.Net core Windows service should auto discover without adding the Nuget package(Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows).

In order to setup the monitoring for .Net core Windows service we need to install Nuget package (Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows) and rebuild/publish the application which requires a new release and therefore we need a solution which will au...
over 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 5 Not under consideration

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

Azure extension install & update

The only way to install and update the Instana Azure extension is my manuell clicking in the Azure webUI. This is not a scalable solution if you have hundreds of App Services. There should be a way to install och update the Instana Azure extension...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 Planned for future release

Grafana like filtering option on SLO Dashboard

Hello, I wanted to create a SLO dashboard on instana and allow users to toggle between service using a drop down menu rather than creating 1 dashboard per service . Example via Grafana : * Grafana allows users to create variables using certain que...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

we want to see the application pools as individuals applications

we dont want to see application pools, because we cannot make dashboards of the ones that are inside the application pool.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications

Title: Discovery and Zero-Code Instrumentation of C++ Applications Detail: Instana agent couldn't able to do both discover and instrument the applications written in C++ with .NET Framework. We would like to discover and instrument these kind of a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Future consideration