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Support for PHP in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for PHP, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
3 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Support for NGINX in rootless podman

As part of the ongoing support for rootless podman, we would like to request full support for NGINX, both for Infrastructure monitoring (sensor) as well as tracing.
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

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
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Needs more information

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under 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.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Tracing Granularity can show in microsecond

We know that the smallest unit ini Instana tracing is <1ms. somehow, there is couple of technology that sensitive to performance under 1 microsecond units. So, we hope that Instana can provide tracing in microsecond units instead of showing <...
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Adding "Call Name" and "HTTP URL" as group options in the "Analytics > Applications > Traces" view.

In the "Analytics > Applications > Calls" view, we understand that there are many group options, such as by "Call Name" or "HTTP URL." However, the customer has requested that similar group options be available on a per-trace basis as well. ...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Needs more information