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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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 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.
4 months ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

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 (...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Allow Customization of Long-Term Trace Retention Policies in Instana On-Prem

We are currently running IBM Instana in an on-premises environment and have encountered limitations with trace retention configuration. According to the official documentation, only the short-term trace retention policy is configurable. However, o...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Provide Exclude option for Apache Tracing

We want to adopt Web EUM Auto Instrumentation through Apache tracing module.We check the following url how to match the request.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=websites-automatic-instrumentation#match-expressions-ex...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Support for Python in rootless podman

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

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

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 <...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration