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Instana

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To be able to monitor PHP for Windows

We would like to monitor Nginx and PHP on windows. But according to our checking, both Nginx and PHP for Windows is currently not supported. So, it would be great if you support Nginx and PHP soon to be able to monitor by Instana. Best Regards, Kh...
about 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 4 Planned for future release

Add Tabs and filter / group by options in custom dashboards

We 'd like to have Tab button and Collapse button to switch grouping and to expand more widgets in a custom Dashboard like applications (call count Http Status Code)
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Future consideration

Custom keyword for ELK

I would like to have the possibility of changing the keyword that Instana uses when redirecting to Kibana The problem is that Instana uses keyword that Kibana does not find, so when redirecting no machine is found.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Manually deleting specific traces from an application

We had a security incident at Instana, we found sensitive data in the traces of an authentication application. We are looking for a way to manually delete these special traces.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Log rotation for cockroachdb

Configure on the rolling of logs under /var/log/instana/cockroachdb as its been consuming a lot of space since we implemented the backend server. We need something in the configuration where we could provide details on how long these logs needs to...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana

Mongo Queries getting executed per minute in mongodb to be shown in Instana where it is easily to debug more in case of db connections increase,load,memory and cpu issues
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Cross-account Cloud Run Agent

in the monitoring cloud run docs at some point it says You need to configure one Instana agent to monitor the GCP project that you are interested in. A dedicated machine needs to be used to monitor GCP resources. If you want to monitor multiple GC...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Instana REST API: Allow aligning datapoints with 24 hour granularity to timezones other than GMT

Using Instana application analyze REST API, if I request datapoints with a 24 hour granularity and a window size equal to a whole number of days, I will only get the expected response if my timeFrame is aligned with GMT date boundaries. If I want ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Get notification of updates & patches for on-premise installations

A customer running an on-premise installation will never know if there are patches or updates available for their Instana version. What happens if a CVE patch is published? Will Instana notify the customer that they have a vulnerable version and t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release