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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 4

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

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

TSRM Gateway to check whether a ticket exists in Maximo before retrying the create process

When the gateway ticket creation attempt fails due to a timeout in the web server, the ticket is sometimes created on the Maximo side. When the gateway retries the failed operation and succeeds, a duplicate ticket is created for the ExternalId (Se...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Netcool SNMP Probe | SNMP v3 traps

A function in the snmp probe to disable function, that snmp v3 traps will be discarded if more than one source uses the same EngineID.
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 1 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...
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Provide SNMP mttrapd probe with the latest code version 22 as a container image for usage on full OCP deployment environments

BW is running NOI on OCP containerized and now need to use the SNMP probe as well. Since all components of NOI are container-based, BW needs this probe also in a containerized version. Unfortunately there are only outdated (v20) images available o...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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