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

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

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Uninstalling agent should remove all files and libraries

When uninstalling the Instana agent customer expect that everything related to the Instana agent should get removed. This is not the case for PHP monitoring. After you uninstall the agent there is still Instana files outside the agent folder that ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 6 Future consideration

Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
12 months ago in Instana / Integrations / Tracing 0 Future consideration