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Group nodes of a redis cluster in service view

We're using redis-cluster to run redundant scaleable redis services. However calls traced by java instrumentation are not mapped to a redis-cluster but to a specific redis instance. This means that redis calls for a specific redis cluster are dist...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Autotrace Webhook init resources

The current implementation of the autotracing webhook creates an init pod with low cpu and memory limits. For us this can result in some throttling while it starts and copies the files into the main pod. We would like the ability to have these val...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Sub flow Monitoring inside the main flow of the Integration Node for IBM ACE Middleware

Its useful because many of the Financial Institutions like Banking sector would want to see the traces sub flows inside the main flow of any Integration Node in IBM App Connect.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 2 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Allow visibility on timed out Redis requests on the client side

In our redis client implementation instana does not trace high latency calls that raise a timeout exception. For better understanding redis behaviour these slow calls should be traced as well.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Full support for Spring Integration framework within Java tracer

Currently, Spring Integration is not a fully supported framework. Some of the calls are supported, but not all.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration