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RBAC and specific role behavior for "agent management"

- Allow users to read the agents-list while not able to change loglevel or even reset/update every agent they like- Allow users to view configuration while not being able to change it (i.e. show AP configuration but not alter it)- Allow users to s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

Improved deployment strategy for Real User Monitoring tracking script

Some security scanners stumble over the missing integrity attribute on the eum.min.js for Instana Real User Monitoring capability leading to a potential security issue. In order to increase security and remove the concern it is requested to addres...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Provide a way to disable Java distributed tracing on per app basis

The documentation shows a way to disable distributed instrumentation tracing for Java apps through host agent configuration: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=machine-java-configuration#disabling-automatic-instrumenta...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

Update Android Client of Instana - So it will work with upcoming Gradle 8.0

Can you pls make the Android client Gradle 8.0 compatible? Error from Gradle (Android Studio build): API 'android.registerTransform' is obsolete. It will be removed in version 8.0 of the Android Gradle plugin. The Transform API is removed to im...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Delivered

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

go-sensor: Stop losing traces during service startup

When services start up, it takes a while until the instana sensor is ready to handle traces and transmit them successfully. Currently, all traces for calls during that timeframe are lost (e.g. fetching configurations, roles, etc. from supporting m...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Go 3 Delivered

MQ sensor to capture expired message counter

On this case many IBM MQ queues have a time set for expire messages that wasn't read, have this information collected by sensor and showed on MQ Dashboards will help expedite the time to solve applications problems, since can give an indication if...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Delivered

Provide enhancements to Span batching

Request to provide enhancements to Span batching. 1. Currently there is no option to disable batching. Request for an option to disable it. 2. Spans are batched based on some preconditions. If the spans pass the conditions, they are batched. In ca...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 5 Delivered

AWS Lambda ESM Support

Currently, the NodeJS instrumentation for AWS Lambda only supports CommonJS modules. As of earlier this year, AWS Lambda supports ES Modules which bring a variety of benefits. Because of this, we're having to manually trace NodeJS lambdas.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Delivered

Don't aggregate different SQL statements or always do it in the same way

A part of my application makes a series of SQL calls (4 inserts and 2 updates, on different tables). I want to monitor how many times the first of these calls is made (or the whole series, it's equivalent) for business and application performance ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 7 Delivered