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Call tag values always treated as String

Our implementation of tracking flows into Db2 for z/OS via JDBC , the Db2 for z/OS and Z Common Data Provider are required. Once installed and configured, we provide metrics (such as cpu_time, smf_id, io_wait, subsystem_id, elapsed_time, lock_wait...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Cross teams/areas / DB2 / IBM Z / Metric Store / Other Tracers / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude entity from scope

I faced a problem with excluding one service from scope in Dynamic Focus Query when I tried to add alert for critical incidents. Also the same for PA, I can use only AND or OR operators. It will a good if you add possibility to exclude service fro...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Ability to aggregate the async latency number collected from traces

We would like to be able to aggregate the async latency number that already exists in the UI for traces. Ideally we would want to create alerts on outlying numbers. This would be very useful to understand whether full user journeys have degraded i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Getting Monitoring Issues via Instana API

The customer can get event types such as incident, issue, change using Instana API, but they cannot get monitoring issues which are very important for them. Due to these monitoring issues, the monitoring done by Instana on technologies in producti...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

Instana should support memory profiling for dotnet core applications

at present dot net core applications can show CPU profiling only. I could not have a view of memory profiles. that is why have to reply on manual profiling. Please provide this integration. One of out app is showing continuos increasing memory thanks
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of the "No responses received for > 10 seconds" value

Request to allow the configuration of the default 10 second value when an agent is disconnected from the SAAS instana Dashboard. We have experienced on occasion network convergences or brief unexpected outages at which point our Instana's Agents l...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Is a defect

K8-Deployment Environment Variables from Kubernetes Secrets should not be visible in process Environment Variables

Introduction: --------------- Our enterprise company uses instana as a shared open platform for all our developers and teams. We recently noticed that some of the teams have visible secrets in the process views.Also, we use strict secret Filtering...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration