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Ensure when an incident/issue no longer exists, we send a 'close' to Service Now

Right now our SNOW integration only opens tickets in SNOW. But when an incident/issue no longer exists, we should also send the corresponding 'close' to Service Now.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

Support for NGINX 1.25 Alpine tracing on K8s/OCP

Right now support is available up to 1.24 alpine. We would need support for 1.25 alpine to trace calls going through the NGINX running on K8s/OCP
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Delivered

Need secure communications from the Instana Agent/Sensor to the IBM i server

Currently, all communications from the Instana Agent/sensor to the IBM i system are insecure. The customer needs to have SSL communications to ensure that traffic is secure.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered

Compatibility for Java Profiling/Profiling on IBM Power (specifically on Linux)

This would be useful as it gives Power users (Dillards specifically which is a deal size of 108,480) access to java profiling for specific insights that they are looking for into the code. This is a dealbreaker request for them. Thank you for cons...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Delivered

Enable support for TibcoBW metrics

Canadian Tire is currently using 8 technologies to support business critical application. Instana supports TibcoEMS, Oracle, AzureFunction and remaining listed above are not supported leaving client without the observability in this area of their ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 0 Delivered

Lack of Request & Response Samples in API Document

We need "Request Samples" and "Response Samples" for all methods in the Instana API documentation on https://instana.github.io/openapi/ For example, the sample request body for POST and PUT methods, the responses returned by the methods etc. Then ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered

nginx v29 support needed

Customer had to upgrade NGINX to v29 due to security issues. We need to speed up release for v29 because its not supported by the latest Instana version. Due to this reason customer has lost some monitoring abilities for their critical systems. Cu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 1 Delivered

Need to monitor Durable queues

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors Durable queues with Tivoli Monitoring in a way we can't replicate in Instana. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below are the dif...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Delivered

Queue triggers missing for threshold creation

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss several Queue triggers to replicate a situation our customer uses in Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in the parameter implementation. Below are the different example...
over 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Delivered

PHP 8.X support for aarch64 based processors

2 customers with PHP are using the AWS Gravitron processors which are of aarch64 processor. We need PHP support for them.
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered