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Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Expose View Details to Non Admins

We would like our end users to have visibility into how a View is created, but without giving them rights to create/edit views. This will empower them to fully understand how a view is defined. We should give read-only access to View tab to non-ad...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Future consideration

Ability to Restrict Edit Permissions for Budgets in Cldy

Currently you cannot restrict who can edit a Budget in Cldy. It would be helpful if we could restrict users so that only the creator of the Budget (or assigned people) could edit the Budget, while other users could just utilize the Budget. This wi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Future consideration

AWS Fargate Agent for Nuxt.js Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports the following Fargate Collectors: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargateWe would be happy if you could add support for Nuxt.js as well.
7 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Need to see whether an IBM MQ trace is a Put or a Get

The customer is monitoring an application where the first transaction that is monitored is a PUT onto a Queue within IBM MQ. The customer is using the Instana User Exit and it is set to DEBUG mode to force the Exit to trace all transactions. Curre...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 1 Future consideration

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