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allow users to comment "configuration elements"

please help users to document configured elements inside Instana with comment/description-fields on at least following configuration dialogs: - Create Application Perspective - Configure Services - Configure Endpoints - Access Control – Roles - Ac...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Context-sensitive tag picker on the infrastructure map

please make the tag-picker on the infrastructure map context-sensitive: With an active dynamic focus filter it should only show tags that are defined on matching agents.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

CentOS8 support

Currently CentOS8 is not listed as a supported OS for on-prem on Instana official documentation.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Provide Infra metrics for custom dashboard in Self-managed Dashboard

In the custom dashboard, Infra and Platform metrics is in "coming soon" status long time. My financial client can't adopt SaaS Instana because it is overseas region. Could you provide infra and platform capability also for the self-managed enviro...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are trying to set up a PoC for Instana. The customer has Oracle Linux which they say is basically RedHat Enterprise Linux. Do we have the capability to set up an on prem backend with Oracle Linux?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Delivered

envoy sensors for envoy 1.19 with gRPC

we added Envoy >= v1.15 support to our libinstana_sensor artifact for distributed tracing in version 1.5.0.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 0 Delivered

Improve trace context between Weblogic T3 RMI calls

Customer's request: To provide trace context between outgoing (A) T3 RMI calls to another Weblogic instance (B).Used protocol: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/web.1111/e13721/rmi_t3.htm#WLRMI143Moving to https based protocol is not an op...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Numeric scale for sensitivity slider in Smart Alerts

a numeric value for sensitivity fo Smart Alerts is desired.Iteratively tuning the sensitivity of multiple alerts is complicated as there is no way to measure "how much" it has been changed or to compare sensitivities between alerts.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Support for Camunda tracing

The customer would like to have the ability to support tracing for the BPM application Camunda.
over 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Enable Instana AWS agent to collect CloudFront Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

The customer wants to enable an Instana (AWS) agent to collect CloudFront monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered