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Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for PHP Sensor on native IBM i agent.

Any customer using PHP on IBM i would likely benefit from having support for this service.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i / PHP / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Ability to re-write the source in Netflow data for WLC's that managed hundreds/thousands of AP's.

We have an issue today where Cisco WLC are sending us netflow for hundreds/thousands of AP's. This makes reporting on a per site basis quite difficult. Customers who are using Cisco DNA have work arounds they can use in Cisco DNA, but it's somethi...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 3 Future consideration

Provide Exclude option for Apache Tracing

We want to adopt Web EUM Auto Instrumentation through Apache tracing module.We check the following url how to match the request.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=websites-automatic-instrumentation#match-expressions-ex...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana EKS Fargate support

Please support AWS EKS fargate. Instana is the best solution for cloud native environment monitoring. Considering it, EKS fargate need to be supported, because if user is focusing cloud native, then EKS fargate is in their target list. BP NSSOL th...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes / Tracing 6 Future consideration

Configurable Sampling Rate and Ignoring Calls

Detail : We would like to configure the sampling rate of a process or a service in Instana. For example, there are 10 different call names for one process, but we just want to see 2 of them to be captured by our agent, so it means sampling rate of...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration