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Instana

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Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Transaction traceability using APPC architecture

This new functionality allows us to obtain and view complete traces of transactions sent from the distributed environment to the mainframe. The benefit is for all those clients who have a mainframe and still use this architecture as a means of c...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 2 Not under consideration

ALSAC would like to be able to monitor the SalesForce Cloud

We need to proactively monitor the SaleForce Cloud which is used extensively in ALSAC. We would like to be able to observe data such as (but not limited to): Logins and ip addresses related to them Data loads and deletions - unusual activity API A...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Not under consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Document the recommended number of events and smart alerts the SaaS by default can support

The information would be useful when development of a solution in which is a replacement of an existing APM. The primary benefit would be to not pick a path only to find out after a large time investment that that option is not able to support the...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration

Feature to change Instana metrics granularity / polling interval

There is a 1s granularity hard-coded in Instana. That is for example for host metrics and JVM etc. It would be great if we could increase the granularity at will in UI admin settings and at agent-level in configurations. For performance related re...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Have ability to set scope as per endpoint for adaptive threshold type

We have observed that when threshold type is adaptive the scope cannot be set to per endpoint, however the option is available when threshold type is static. Need this feature to be available in Instana as it is supported in AppDynamics. This will...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 7 Not under consideration

Custom events - Possibility to set up only during certain period of time

Hi, Nowadays there is not any possibility to create a custom event that could trigger an event only during time frame wished. Use case is clear. Imagine an integration that is only receiving calls during business hours. We could want to monitor if...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 5 Not under consideration

Ability to customize built-in rules

Ability to customize built-in rules
about 2 years ago in Instana 1 Not under consideration