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Find Kubernetes entities if the end time is greater than the entity lifetime

At the moment one can find an entity (e.g. Kubernetes Deployment) if the start time is earlier than the entity creation time but it is not possible to find an entity if the selected end time in the UI is later than the entity deletion/termination/...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Support Apache Httpd for servers with PowerPC 64 bits little endian (ppc64le) architecture

Hi, Financiera Efectiva has some servers running on Power PC 64 little endian architecture. Currently, Instana doesn't support this architecture. Please your support for enabling the tracing module and tracing library to trace all the request. Reg...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Planned for future release

Openshift's S2I Python Apps Trace

The customer wants to trace Python applications which are built by Openshift's S2I method by using Instana's Python Autotrace Webhook. However, this feature could be used with a workaround solution by adding "INSTANA_AUTOTRACE_USE_LIB_INSTANA_INIT...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 1 Not under consideration

Improving Agent - Repo Mechanism

Improving Agent - Repo Mechanism When there is a service outage in our internal repo (Nexus) that our dynamic Instana agents used, Instana agents are directly affected by this situation and their host discovery is disabled. We have started working...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Support for latest versions of Tornado web server

We would like to use Instana AutoTrace with Jupyter notebooks using version 6.3 of Tornado. Currently 6.2 is the highest supported version.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Python 0

Nobl9 has difficulties when integrating Instana's Application APIs.

1) On the Analytics page, the API query button does not generate a complete JSON blob that can be used to query Instana to get the same result as shown on the UI. - No group by option in the generated JSON.- No Hidden Calls filtering in the JSON. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

WIDGET SLO in LIVE mode does not refresh with values ​​defined in SLI

To be possible to check the live mode in SLO widget in a custom dashboard in Instana. Currently it is unavailable.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Future consideration

Support Prometheus Metrics on Openshift through Openshift Annotations

The option to use OC annotations to collect Prometheus Metrics is not supported by Instana (yet)?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound services, such as sending an outbound MQ, or calling another Web Services which resides in a distributed system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Link the Trace ID from Instana UI to external ELK dashboard

For Instana monitoring z/OS application, there are more detail monitoring metrics from z/OS platform and usually be avialable in ELK stack. The trace data catpured by Instana on z/OS has some correlation with the transactional metrics collected by...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Not under consideration