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Web site monitoring to be able to handle Multi-factored Authentication (MFA)

All of our web sites are MFA enabled.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Provide information from textbase MBeans and nested MBeans within Instana.

For the client (Continental) it is very important to see information from textbase MBeans as well as nested MBeans within Instana to determine RC’s. But Instana is not capable to do so because nested Mbeans and textbase MBeans are not recognized b...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Otel C++ SDK official support in AIX and RHEL

Now Otel C++ SDK is supported only for Ubuntu 2020 and Windows 2016.But in the IBM delivered financial systems, C++ applications are running in AIX and RHEL, which are considered to be more appropriate for Enterprise usecase. Please add Otel C++ S...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1

Support for httpd tracing library for Apache web server on z/Linux (s390x)

This support is critical for clients on z/Linux who have IBM IHS, which is based on httpd
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration

Allow OracleDB sensor data captured to be interrogated.

At present the information exposed by the OracleDB sensor is fairly limited. Furthermore, it is not possible to analyse the data in any detail. For example it shows top 10 SQL by CPU, but you can not search by SQL ID and see how the SQL has perfor...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

OracleDB sensor to work for Oracle Standard Edition as well as Enterprise Edition

Currently the Instana OracleDB sensor requires Oracle Enterprise Edition to access the full functionality, as this requires access to some views which in turn require Enterprise Edition to avoid any breaches of Oracle licence. The enhancement woul...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

EUM Geography granular representation

We have a custom GeoDB Database that provides detailed geo location for each request from the EUM and mobile apps configured. These include longitude and latitude coordinates (just like Maxmind's GeoLite2 database), as well as finely granular name...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Improve EUM Page Load View - Add Script Type Labelling for Calls pre Page Load Completion

All calls that are processed before the page load has been completed are being labelled "OTHER" instead of their actual type. Can they be retroactively analysed and labelled correctly instead? Please see added screenshots for reference.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Not under consideration