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Java method tracing pre-defined options

Instana is unable to determine the time/performance at the Java “method” level. Instana requires either of the two of traces to be enabled to capture the method level performance, 1. Configuration based SDK trace: No changes on the application cod...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

Support Apache Httpd for servers with PowerPC 64 bits little endian (ppc64le) architecture

Hi, Financiera Efectiva has some servers running on Power PC 64 little endian architecture. Currently, Instana doesn't support this architecture. Please your support for enabling the tracing module and tracing library to trace all the request. Reg...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound services, such as sending an outbound MQ, or calling another Web Services which resides in a distributed system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Add profiling information to Traces/Spans

Some other vendors like Datadog include profiling information (e.g. CPU hotspots, CPU lock contention, ...) to the Traces/Spans.This is very valuable information in case of troubleshooting.Are there any plans to support such a feature in the near ...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

ISBANK wants to observe, how much time spent in any method for .Net and Java.

In Instana, the customer wants to observe, how much time spent in any method for .Net and Java.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

AWS SQS 2.1.x / Spring Kafka >= 3.1 / Apache Kafka Clients 3.3.x not supported by Instana Java Sensor

One of our teams found out that a lot of framework support in the instana JVM sensor is outdated. Our teams using Kafka and Aws can not use instana at the moment for monitoring their services, since the traces with those frameworks:- AWS SDK 2.x--...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2

Filter calls on the agent level based on IP addresses

We are running Network Scans against our Linux Server on which our Applications are running. This results in a lot of Calls against our Applications which are traced in instana and looks like an attack. We would like to filter these calls on agent...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists