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Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
about 2 years ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

For JVM Monitoring customer needs ability to provide application memory leak analysis, lock contentions, process crash analysis

NSB is a Banking customer for Srilanka territory. They are managing thier core banking application with Instana. using Instana for core banking app. Instana Backend (docker development) Deployed in OS: Redhat server 8.8 (Ootpa) Number of reporting...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Targetprocess API Integration should integrate with client's SSO and use the token generated by the company's SSO service.

Targetprocess API Integration: The API token is generated by Targetprocess and is not coming from our SSO service. Additionally, the token is not automatically rotated and we have to put a manual process to rotate the token, which creates a slight...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Other Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
7 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

Add reactions to item comments

I would like to be able to react on comments with 👍🏻, 👎🏻, ❤️, etc. Sometimes, a simple "acknowledgement" is enough, and it's much less friction than writing a new comment.
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 3 Not under consideration

Nginx autotrace

Hi, We would like to capture the traces of our nginx services. For this we installed the necessary on our TKGI environment, but it seems that the autotrace is not functioning on a customized ingress-nginx image. Since this is currently not support...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

POST Endpoint for Instana Event REST API

Currently there is no simple way to create Alerts or Alert Channels using the Instana API. Only the PUT method exists which can be used to Create or Update these resources. However, these endpoints require unique IDs to perform these actions, whic...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Would like to be able to sort by the Progress field.

Valuable in reports and roadmap if block owners/managers/executives want to see reports by progress % rather than "effort" or "size"
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Filters 0 Under review

Instana agent to not monitor ALL Kubernetes "cluster" namespaces - ability to monitor only specific namespaces within a single cluster

Customer has all environments i.e. dev, uat, prod within the same cluster in Kubernetes. Now since Instana agent has been installed at the cluster level, it has picked up all the included nodes and namespaces This has resulted in increase of no. o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists