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Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Hi IBM , need to enhance in Instana that able to export the analytics applications call into csv .

it is useful for sort the data using excel , not copy paste one by one.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring of custom application ( Finnacle CBS ) running on c programming script, binaries (most with a .so extension)

Customer is using Finacle Application. They have Installed Instana Agent on AIX 7.2 Servers and can see hosts metrics for all servers and also the calls details from WAS Server to DB Server. But call details from APP Server to DB server are not sh...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Instana: Would like to see the Availability zone as part of the trace

Currently we are unable to filter using the availability zone in the Analytics>Applications/Calls tab. You can specify the availability zone in a Smart Alert, but when you try and analyze the issue you cannot filter on the Availability Zone.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Functionality already exists

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration