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Support zLinux for Instana distributed OpenTelemetry collector

We want to collect logs with OpenTelemetry collector. Because of the support perspective, we want to use Instana Distribution of Opentelemetry Collector (IDOT) . But our system is running on zLinux (SUSE) and IDOC does not cover zLinux. Could you ...
5 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Under review

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Other Tracers 4 Not under consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Add tracing capability for MQ MFT

My customer wants to trace the file transfers in MQ
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Other Tracers 1 Future consideration

Please support AWS Managed Grafana Datasource

We would like to create a feature Request for support of AWS Managed Grafana: https://aws.amazon.com/de/grafana/ A list of supported datasources you can find here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/grafana/latest/userguide/AMG-data-sources-builtin.html ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 2 Future consideration

Config option to change the frequency of db requests

We are using the Instana Agent with the PostgreSQL sensor.With the log analyzer pgBadger and pg_stat_statements we noticed that the Instana sensor queries the database every other second which puts them on top of the most time consuming queries in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration

Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Get traces from CloudFlare Edge Workers

Instana does not seem to provide this at the moment.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 2 Not under consideration