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Filter entities in Quick add by role and project

Currently, when using Quick Add, users see all the entities in the instance, including different terms defined in different projects. It does not appear that these are limited based on what projects the user is assigned to nor what permissions the...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

See which notification box was checked when comment was created

When adding a comment there are checkboxes to notify creator/assigned people. The customer would like to see which option was checked when creating a comment in the history.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable collection of service flow metrics on service relation

As a monitoring org for sales distribution platform with complex distributed service architecture we need metrics like eg. latency, calls, error-rate for caller-callee service relation as opposed to existing application service flow map where metr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Support tracing of ICAP-calls (protocol technology support)

Hello,we have service application using ICAP protocol to send and receive data to be virus scanned.It would be awesome to see this calls in Instana
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 7 Needs more information

Providing limited access of Targetprocess to our Clients (External Users)

BMM needs to provide login access to our external users/clients so they can view Bugs/DIRTS, change statuses, and add/view attachments without compromising other clients' data. Each client should only be able to view and edit information assigned ...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Consolidation of Notification Capabilities in Automation Rules

Currently there are 3 ways to create notifications in TP: 1) The notification settings for each entity via Process settings 2) The notification rules capability 3) @mentions in comments Number 3 is the only one available from Automation rules and...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

API of Tracing

When a service or endpoint alarm occurs, we need to obtain the corresponding trace details through the API, but currently Instana does not have this API. Traversing all traces is time-consuming. It is recommended to add this API
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Application Transaction Tracing for DataPower and MQ Appliances

This is idea is beneficial for all customers who employ DataPower and/or MQ appliances as part of their application infrastructure because it would enable them to gain a true 'end-to-end' view of their application flows. By enabling transactions t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration