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Instana

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Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
12 months ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

add aws rds EBSIO% metric into Instana

If you add aws rds EBSIO% metric we can create an alert it
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Azure AppService .NET Core tracing support

I would like support for Azure AppService .NET Core. Currently, only instrumentation of AppService for .Net Framework 4.5.1+ workloads is supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Delivered

Export data comparison table

Hello, By performing a filter on our machines on the comparison table view. It would be interesting to be able to export all the machines that we see. This will allow us to use them for scripts or to transfer them Sincerely
about 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Integration with Go - Fiber framework

Hi there. We are working on a new product and we are going live on 31st July. We are in need of an application monitoring tool in order to visualise the performance of the application. Instana is not currently not supported for web servers written...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Go 2 Delivered

Instana use case for IBMi monitoring

Dear Instana team, We would like to have this use case supported by Instana please: We would like to monitor if some critical IBMi jobs (that we would specify by name) is running or not I have researched the options provided out of the box by Inst...
over 3 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Delivered

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
over 3 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered