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End to end transaction journey monitoring.

Multiple banking customers have been asking for end-to-end journey mapping across their payment ecosystem. Their main requirement is to be able to stitch a single business journey across multiple hops, each of which uses a different identifier. Ex...
20 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Add possibility of creating public dashboard and exposing it without authentication

Hello Colleagues, we have a second request, please consider adding a functionality of creating a public dashboard with it's exposure without authentication. Thank you
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Use GPS for geolocation instead of IP address for more accurate location

For real user monitoring or EUM (end-user monitoring): would be great if we can use GPS on mobile device for more accurate geolocation besides using IP Address
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Please add seconds parameter in the input dates field for UI time range section

In general, logs are generated at a nanosecond level. However, in Instana, the current filtering and time range adjustment options are limited to a minimum of one minute. While this granularity may suffice for some use cases, it becomes insufficie...
8 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Support the access setting with id & certificate for AzureSensor

Currently Azure sensor support connection only with service principals id & secret as bellow. com.instana.plugin.azure: enabled: true # Subscription & Tenant ID subscription: '[Your-Subscription-Id]' tenant: '[Your-Tenant-Id]' # List ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
22 days ago in Instana / Node 0 Submitted