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Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

instana monitor confluent kafka group lag

instana can not monitor confluent kafka group lag, confluent kafka protocol is sasl_ssl, not defalut plain protocol
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

Support for Netfox Library in iOS Mobile Instrumentation

Hi team, Our client has reported that they aren't able to monitor their iOS application using Instana due to a conflict with the Netfox library. The Netfox library is currently not supported by Instana, causing the application to block API calls w...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Need to be able to assign tags to an integration node

Currently, tags can only be assigned to a Host or to some specific sensors such as MQ. Customers have a need to use tags for filtering, thresholding, etc. using tags for other sensors. Specifically, this customer needs to be able to use tags on an...
about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

Support for ActiveMQ Artemis version up to 2.36.x

Hi team, Our customer MinFin from Belgium reported that they aren't able to monitor their ActiveMQ Artemis because their version is not supported, we support until 2.6.x Can you please add support up till latest version at the time of writing this...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues. Some kind of local buffer to handle/accommodate if there are any connectivity issues
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Close or surpress event based on condition

This is an enhancement/feature request re. capability to close events or suppress events based on conditions met, in order to have a (more) precise and flexible event duration rather than the default duration
about 1 month ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review