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Datalink Classic Cloudability connector -request for selecting dates for connection

Hello,  can you please add functionality to allow selection of the days of the month on which the connection should run? The request is for functionality that allows selection of the days on which the connection should run until the end of ti...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future 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

After our security review we would like for a scan to be performed on customer files that are uploaded into Apptio to protect for potentially malicious content.

By having the scan it will protect our systems from potential malicious content and follow our normal security protocol which is not being met by Apptio currently.
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 7 Needs more information

Customer requesting a data validation email if a load fails due to a format change in a column or a column being added to the data set

We have a customer requesting a data validation email if a load fails due to a format change in a column or a column being added to the data set. This would be part of the Uploader Service notifications to include data formatting validations, simi...
9 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

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

Add last day of month as variable like {DD}

I want the ability to run a datalink connector on the first of the month to retrieve data from the previous month, with the added capability to have {DD} variable specified as the last day of the last month. For example in a REST connector connect...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

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