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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 (...
7 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

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (Webstart Client) should support OpenJDK

Currently IBM Tivoli Monitoring (SP12/13) Webstart Client only supports Java 1.8. It should support OpenJDK in future releases.To superseed Java 1.8 by OpenJDK is a strategic issue in our company. BR Andrea
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

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 <...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
over 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 9 Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

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

Automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM

We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/support/pages...
9 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

ITM Windows Agent to use latest VC++ redist version which is currently supported by Microsoft and remove dependency of using VC++ 2008, 2013

Currently ITM Windows OS Agent (NT) is using VC++ 2008 release up to SP5 and VC++ 2013 release from SP6 and above. Both VC++ releases were no longer supported by Microsoft which results in compliance Issue and can also be a security threat. So, we...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 8 Planned for future release

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 1 Future consideration