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Reports should have an increased number of pivots

Currently, when the number of pivots exceed a certain number, the report errors out with " Too much pivot columns for <column name>;. Please, apply additional filters or change report settings. " This limitation should be addressed and the n...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Auto-refresh Report on Page Refresh or every 1 minute

We recommend implementing an auto-refresh feature for the reports, either on page load or every minute. This is especially beneficial for scenarios where actions are completed in under a minute, and users expect to see real-time updates reflected ...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Allow APScheduler to be supported on Instana

APScheduler library is not supported by Instana. I have written an automation code that uses the library. Since the library is not supported by Instana, the traces are not getting collected to be monitored. I request Instana team to kindly include...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release

Burn chart chart created through Dashboard widget doesn't filter based on custom quick filter

When the user creates a report with Burn down chart in a dashboard.We do not have option to add a custom quick filter.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Capture custom HTTP request headers for outgoing calls

Background/Context We have a strong need to track http request headers on outgoing calls as part of detailed monitoring of a 3rd party integration. Feature request Support HTTP request headers for exit spans. In our case we need this for the follo...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Supporting aio-pika 6.7.1 library for Python application

Hi, We our Python application makes calls to RabbitMQ by using aio-pika library and in Instana we dont see these calls.Could you please look at it and add supporting this library?Thank you.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Instana Google Cloud platform support for python slim buster image

Hello, I have been trying to integrate instana with GCP and our project uses python's slim buster image. I tried it with Alpine image but a lot of our dependencies are not being supported by it, like PYPI wheels, pycryptodomex, etc Please provide ...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Python 2 Not under consideration

Add "message" tag for monitoring kafka

I'm using instana for tracing requests and sometimes our http endpoints send kafka messages to topics.I added instrumentation for kafka python library we are using so that in can be traced in instana. Issue I'm facing is - I need to show message b...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Historical reports on custom fields

Currently, the TargetProcess tool does not support history reporting on custom fields. We have a custom field on entities called "Blocked," and we would like to monitor the time an entity spends in the blocked state. This functionality is crucial ...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review