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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Need Instance parameter representation in thresholds and percentiles

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several parameters that we need to monitor Queue Channels: Instance numbers Instance percentile Channels percentile Our customer monitors them with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Need to operate with timestamps to create thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss timestamps in threshold functionality. Our customer uses them with Tivoli Monitoring and they're interested in implementation of the same functionality in Instana. Below, there are the 3 examples of such ITM sit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Trace for JDBC requests from DB2 Connect to DB2 on z/OS

For customers using JDBC calls to DB2 on z/OS through an intermediate DB2 Connect server, this is must to compose the complete transaction trace.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Planned for future release

Support for Spring Boot 3 and IBM MQ / JMS Integration

As a customer using the following library: https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-jms-spring from the IBM MQ Team. We would like to see the tracing information for incoming JMS Messages, and those calling a DB. <dependency> <groupId>com.i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Alert on New Agent Registration at the SaaS Backend

The Customer needs to control the Instana Agent "one-liner installer" which is public information. In that sense, every user that has according permissions, can register a new agent against the Instana Backend. To avoid unwanted agent sprawl the c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Alert 0 Planned for future release

Port info should be in the framework dashboard

ISBANK wants to track Port info and it should be in the framework dashboard.This is not a supported framework, we cannot collect that information.This idea for a framework sensor to collect that to our Sensor Team.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

ISBANK want to see the consumers of any service or any queue

ISBANK want to see the consumers of any service or any queue especially on ibm mq
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 6 Not under consideration

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

ISBANK needs a call-based java profiling, together with time-based java profiling.

In Instana, we have Java profiling and stack trace for the calls but there is no direct correlation between them. I mean the customer needs a call-based java profiling, together with time-based java profiling.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

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:- Apache Kafka ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release