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Instana

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Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Capture resource statistics outside of page load phase

EUM tickets from Conrad: - we don't record asset loadings once page load phase is over - reason for this is that the user could potentially record a lot of garbage data - this needs a proper strategic evaluation - also could result in much more da...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Numeric span tag data type support for custom traces

In its current implementation all custom tag data are treated as string data and filter by the related operators (is present, equals, not present, contains etc). Please see a screenshot of the existing operators available for custom tags via the I...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Monitor external https endpoints

There are components /services in an application which do some calls to external http based services. I can see this calls in the analyze trace view. Is there a possibillity to get an aggregated view how this external service performs? In e.g. App...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Trace AWS Lambda for arbitrary function

Currently its expected that a Lambda function implements the interface com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler to get traced. Because this interface is not needed, it should be possible to trace any Lambda function.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Not under consideration

AWS Timestream DB Monitoring

AWS timestream DB monitoring
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration