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Instana

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Handle http status code 0 not as error

Envoy is becoming a popular reverse proxy in the cloud native space. Although it is supported by Instana for monitoring and tracing, we found one case where traces are marked as erroneous, but should not be: Client disconnects. When a client close...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

Display deployment markers in Event views

Smart Alerts with adaptive thresholds is a nice feature to detect anomalies. Very often these anomalies are triggered by a change in the system (for example a deployment). Many graphs in Instana display the deployment markers for this reason, but ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Instana: Ability to disable a micrometer metric (EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues)

Currently in Instana you have the ability to either enable or disable the entire micrometer collection.You don't have the ability to disable one or some of its metrics. The EhCache metric has known performance/out of memory issues when dealing wit...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Future consideration

Provide enhancements for Splunk Integration

It’s nice to see we can navigate to Splunk directly from Instana however I still see some enhancements can be made like below, Support of custom names for field names for PODs E.g: As per Instana the POD name key will be kubernetes.pod_name howeve...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Trace Pega solution (Java Based) at the Rules level.

Please Monitor Pega solution at the 'Rules' level. Currently, we are attempting to leverage the Configuration Based Java Tracing SDK - this is not allowing us to configure each rule and display it where it is easily tracked in the UI - this hinder...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Autotrace Webhook init resources

The current implementation of the autotracing webhook creates an init pod with low cpu and memory limits. For us this can result in some throttling while it starts and copies the files into the main pod. We would like the ability to have these val...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Instana Metrics Sensor for Solace Message Broker on Docker

We have more than 30 Teams using the Message Broker Technology - Solace. Some of them are central data providers, which makes this Technology a critical component in the overall the company Service & technology landscape. Operating and Monitor...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Sub flow Monitoring inside the main flow of the Integration Node for IBM ACE Middleware

Its useful because many of the Financial Institutions like Banking sector would want to see the traces sub flows inside the main flow of any Integration Node in IBM App Connect.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

metric or api endpoint for sent alerts

Currently there's only a fuzzy way to get the amount of sent out alerts, and even only for smart alerts. As alerting is a very crucial and important feature (when used), it should be easier to figure out how many alerts had been sent in the past (...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration