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Support of ActiveMQ 5.18

Confirmed support for metrics and configuration data for versions: 5.11.1, 5.12.0, 5.13.1, 5.14.3, 5.15.2.Please consider to support higher versions of ActiveMQ e.g. 5.18 along with springboot 3x. The Request was already raised a while ago but did...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Monitoring WAS in AS400/Iseries

I currently have more than 100 Websphere application servers in as400 and with instanta I cannot monitor them, so I request your help so that they have this need and the collector is created, as well as tivoli monitoring, apm, Icam
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Delivered

Supporting IBM MQ Appliances

We are using IBM MQ Appliances for our critical transactional production. This component is very critical for our environnment. We have approximately 300 applications using IBM MQ. In order to achive end to end observability, we need full tracing ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ 0 Delivered

Support for Instana agent in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) & Azure ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift)

Two major customers wants to monitor CP4I components (API Connect, MQ, ACE, etc.) with Instana, which is supported.CP4I is installed on managed OpenShift in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and Azure ARO ((Azure Red Hat OpenShift).The I...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x

According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Delivered

Java Tracing support for Spring Boot version 2.7.x

Currently, the db tracing breaks for spring-boot services with version 2.7.X. Calls against a MongoDB are not captured by Instana.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Release markers on Custom Dashboards

when working with Custom Dashboards I want to have an indication when changes happen in order to analyze my data around a focal point. For this I would like to have release markers also in the Time Series widget on Custom Dashboards.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Delivered

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2 Delivered

RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered