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Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
3 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
16 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Enable the customization of fields for alerts coming from Instana in Watson AIOps, so that custom payloads and additional data can be fully utilized in direct integrations.

Currently, when integrating alerts from Instana into Watson AIOps, there is a critical limitation: only a set of predefined fields are transferred, and important custom information contained in Instana's custom payloads is not mapped or visible in...
15 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

For certain v2 API endpoints - the payload does not appear to be logged anywhere on the NMS backend

In particular, this endpoint: /api/v2/users That is used to create new users. However, the payload of that is not logged anywhere on the NMS backend. The payload that has created user details can not be found in files like nginx access.log, /var/l...
about 4 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
about 14 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

setup limits by default to t8c-operator

Telefónica customer is very sensitive to the security and stability of its systems.
about 19 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Submitted

IBM i agent to collect ILE/RPG/CL/Cobol tracing information (iDoctor light)

A customer , iDoctor user; would like to have a consolidated view of the IBM i agent tracing info and ILE tracing. Currently , the solution is to identify a job/program with Instana and use a PEX trace /JW collection to drill down and investigate....
1 day ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

RFE: Customer would like the ability to input comments that is over 1600 characters OR provide a threaded comments at the line item level for their Asset impairment process

Customer needs to keep historical decisions for their Asset Impairment process as the asset goes through yearly impairment of useful life. The impairment is at the asset level. The comments serves the propose of tracing the decisions for impairmen...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
1 day ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

AWS Fargate Agent (Node.js) needs drizzle support

The drizzle driver for postgres isn't traced in this Agent/sensor. Can we get that added into this agent for tracabilty in AWS RDS Postgres via the drizzle library?
1 day ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted