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Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

It is required to have support for the Universal Payments Framework (UPF) technology developed by ACI Worldwide.

The UP Framework is at the core of ACI’s Universal Payments strategy to enable end-to-end enterprise payments. It is a set of technologies and frameworks that orchestrate all aspects of payments processing for any payment type, any channel, any cu...
3 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

The time range of the link in event closure mail should be set according to the end date/time, not start date/time

If user click the link of the closure mail of the event, it looked like the event is still active, and the icon is red. This is because the time range of the link is:From: event start date/time - 5 minsTo: event start date/time + 5 mins But we thi...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Needs more information

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 4 Planned for future release

Instana needs to send notifications/alerts when active directory certificates expire in OpenShift on Z

Without this notification, it's a manual effort to keep checking for expired certificates
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Synthetic 1 Under review

create API token for particular Application Perspective.

Requirement is ability to restrict API tokens which we create in Instana UI to a specific deployment/namespace in k8. For example: If we use a token for 1 deployment we should be able to check or retrieve data only for that particular deployment. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Future consideration

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed

SAP ABAP Sensor - Built In Event if Transport has failed
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Planned for future release

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display RFC Connection Errors

SAP ABAP Sensor - Display RFC Connection Errors
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup

Oracle DB Sensor - Generate Event for Archive Log Backup
3 months ago in Instana / Automation 1 Future consideration