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JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Support Java Profiling on zLinux/LinuxONE platform

When using Instana for application performance monitoring and tuning, profiling is a useful feature to tune Java applications, currently Java profiling is only supported on x86 platform.
8 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Java Tracing support for Spring Boot version 2.7.x

Currently, the db tracing breaks for spring-boot services with version 2.7.X. Calls against a MongoDB are not captured by Instana.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Ability to download Instana agents in Air-gapped Self hosted Standard Edition (K3S)

As of v287, the agent download fails in the self-hosted air-gapped standard edition. The only way is to go to internet and pull the latest agents for Instana agent repository OR mirror the repository to local environment. Given the access restrict...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 9 and higher version

We need a support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 9 and higher version
11 months ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Support for Instana Backend on OpenShift

Openshift support is on our roadmap and definitely something we want to support at Instana. Beta is planned for Q2 and GA for Q3.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 7 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

Support of Kotlin coroutines 1.6

Hello, We recently updated Kotlin coroutines to 1.6 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered