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My ideas: Tracing

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Golang AutoTrace

Add AutoTrace for Golang. Besides our custom operators, a lot of Kubernetes components are written in Golang. We would like tracing for Golang without having to update the code. I suspect the approach would likely need to use eBPF instead of using...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring mainframe call

Our user need to monitor mainframe call but at this time we can't instrumenting the technology(mainframe library)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Filter on exit endpoints (Capture http headers for exit calls)

Hello, We are facing an issue due to restrictions in Instana. We can't get contextual informations on endpoints going to non instrumented applications.The consequence is that we can't manage incidents the same way if they come from an internal or ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

support com.instana.secrets filtering on HTTP cookie headers

The HTTP Cookie header is useful to capture for debugging purposes. However, for security in depth it would be beneficial to be able to mask certain cookies, e.g. the login/session cookie.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

ACE & Datapower to Database transaction tracing

Currently ACE/Datapower to Database(Oracle 12c/19c) transaction tracing is not available. It is required to track the transaction end-to-end. In Vi there are many integrations where ACE/Datapower is calling Database either via stored procedure cal...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Java ECS Collector on Nginx docker image

From support case TS013962979 "We explained to the customer that Java ECS Collector in an Nginx Docker Image is not supported at the moment, however, they would like to try https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws...
about 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Instana should natively support tracing of Microsoft AKKA framework

We have a large deal at Kaizen Gaming in Greece that uses AKKA and the competition uses it. Kaizen is a gaming company expanding rapidly, now covering 12 countries in Europe and US and planning to expand in Asia in 2023. They have 1.500 employees ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to identify the requesting IP-Address when using Java-Tracing ( Tomcat/WebLogic etc.)

As described in the title, it would be extremly helpful for our customer if he could correlate traces captured by Instana with the IP-Address of the requesting client. The functionality would be most useful if it was implemented just like with the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration