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Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Increase Size limitation in Data Insight for GAAL Maap. User had to break up the maps to make the map working because of the size limitation.

User had an issue opening the GAAL maap and had to break up the maps to get it working.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Needs more information

Can we add text blocks to Maps in DI (you can in reports as a widget, but not the Maps section)

User is having issues with viewing the maps would love to have this feature added in maps
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add usage data to DI. Both in the GUI and via API.

It would be very useful to know what reports are being used and by which users. Currently, I have no idea what the adoption level of SevOne is.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Hide Out of the Box Reports from users

OOTB Reports are automatically imported and cannot be deleted from SevOne Data Insight and cannot be made personal to the admin user in order to hide them from any other user. The Customer do not have a use for these yet and would like to hide the...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
23 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
24 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review