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Backend Enablement

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URL based parsing

We need to seperate URLs into logical service groups. Our monitoring capabilities are depending on this feature
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Needs more information

Service naming feature

We need to adapt monitored service names with our CMDB. So, we need to re-naming auto detected service, host, process names. Difficult usage: SDK, environment variable definition no regex rules, no separete service type (custom service)
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

exception ignore

We need to ignore some business exception and doesn’t mark as a fail and alert. because every operation has its own bussiness exceptions and sometime they can be ignored for a period of time.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Provide a feature to Disable/Block the tracing of a few specific API calls from the EndUser monitoring

We have started using Instana EUM feature and found that it is tracing and tracking a lot of APIs calls to our feature flag service which we would like to disbale them from Instana. -Ashwin
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Functionality already exists

Use custom headers to map dependencies

At Capitec, we have a custom header which we are already including in our transactions: x-capitec-correlation-id. We have enabled our agents to capture this header and we are making us of it in the transactions analytics section where we set a fil...
7 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Functionality already exists

Custom Dashboard Traffic light widget

We're using the custom dashboards for a while now, and we are missing some customization features like a traffic light Widget.That's why we use Instana Custom Dashboards for simple dashboards and Grafana for dashboards, that need to be more meanin...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Infrastructure 11

OTEL integration on Instana running Docker Container.

Want to enable the Open Telemetry (OTEL) acceptor (otlp-acceptor) so we can start testing OTEL as more standard way to send telemetry data to Instana. Instana backend is running on Docker Container
9 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Not under consideration

Change release marker display size limitation to configurable size

Please see also Ticket TS016592330 Currently it is not possible to enlarge the mouseover section . Please consider an enabling feature to be included in the upcoming releases.
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Instana agent and ui-backend proxy settings with no proxy var or proxy config per backend

We are trying to send our instana agent to a 2nd backend on your saas for testing a feature. But our kubernetes agents are getting timeouts to your endpoint. I assume it has to do with our network setup and that our proxy has to be used to reach y...
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration