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Instana

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Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Request to Add IP Address Restriction for Instana Tenants

[Request] Datadog already has an IP address restriction*, but Instana does not. *https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/org_settings/ip_allowlist/ Our customers have strict security requirements, so they have set up a jump server specifical...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
about 16 hours ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
about 24 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version

We need a support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version
1 day ago in Instana / Java 0 Planned for future release

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
3 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
about 1 month ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Instana IBM MQ Channel metrics - Converting status from numbers to text

In current version widget with channel status metrics working good, but for users with no experience, the status in numbers is not understandable. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=mq-viewing-metrics#ibm-mq-channel-me...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 1 Under review

LDAP multiple domains authentication

In current version Instana allow to configure only one LDAP connection.If domains are in tree in theory it should work:For example:aaa.com (points to first domain controller)Domain 1: xzy.aaa.com (first domain controller)Domain 2: 123.aaa.comDomai...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted