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Trace through Azure API Management and Azure Service Bus

Clients use Integrations running in Azure are expecting full tracing end to end through Azure API Management - Appservice - Azure SQL - Azure Service Bus - Azure Functions. Today Instana can only trace through App Services and Functions so we can ...
12 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the MQ Channel Status metric in Instana dashboard widget, there is no filter option for channel status

To check the MQ Channel Status for the channels with erroneous status codes
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana Agent could not connect to MySQL

Hi Team Currently, to monitor MySQL in Instana, we are explicitly providing the username and password in the instana configuration.yaml file. We would like to store these credentials in AWS Secret Manager. This will ensure that the credentials are...
6 months ago in Instana 1 Under review

Enable Opentelemetry for SAP and SOAP Nodes

This feature allows the collection of OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing data for SOAP and SAP nodes within IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). By enabling OpenTelemetry, developers and operations teams can gain deep observability into message flows i...
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Functionality already exists

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

how to generate all AWS stale snapshots report using BI/ CDLY

If I have created 100 snapshots from EBS volumes in an account and later deleted the associated EBS volumes, leaving the snapshots(stale snapshots) alone, I would like to list all 100 snapshots that are not associated with EBS volumes in a report ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Functionality already exists

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Support for Red Hat AMQ Broker

We are using Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing on Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11 We know that Artemis...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release