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Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Left Panel Tornado: option to filter on Favorites

When searching for a view in the left menu, it would be helpful to have a filter checkbox to narrow down the results to "Favorites".
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Future consideration

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Improvement of the History Tab presentation

Dears, Reading and finding back information in any history tab can be come a nightmare when it comes to items with metrics & automation rules. We would find it more readable if the history can either be filtered or cut in section according to ...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Future consideration

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

We want use mashup to populate a new field in the quick add form based on selection of values of another field which is already existing in the form.

We want use mashup to populate a new field in the quick add form based on selection of values of another field which is already existing in the form. In the screenshot attached, when "WOTF" value is selected from the sourcing mechanism (Existing f...
23 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have separate Team Workflows even if there is more than one Final State in the default Workflow for User Stories

Allowing separate Team level workflows when there are two final states would allow us to still have a Cancelled Final State and a Done Final State, but still allow teams to expand for additional states on Workflows to better process their work. Ke...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Not under consideration

Ability to limit the relations tab for search & create

The relations tab feels confusing for some users. they press + to create a relation instead of searching the environment & some customers don't want to use this functionality in here but only from an integration standpoint. the request is as f...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
24 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
24 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review