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Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Seperation of batch trace with large call volume into multiple traces

Currently you cannot separate/split the number of traces as the default criteria cannot be changed.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Future consideration

Autotrace Webhook init resources

The current implementation of the autotracing webhook creates an init pod with low cpu and memory limits. For us this can result in some throttling while it starts and copies the files into the main pod. We would like the ability to have these val...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Filter calls on the agent level based on IP addresses

We are running Network Scans against our Linux Server on which our Applications are running. This results in a lot of Calls against our Applications which are traced in instana and looks like an attack. We would like to filter these calls on agent...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to create custom events with more than one metric

Customer needs to alert on certain custom and build in metrics in combination with other metrics. Some use cases include the combination of custom metrics collected by Micrometer or Prometheus. Other use cases are to create "optimized/revised" ver...
over 5 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

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,...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
about 3 years ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists