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Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Springboot-Sensor: Datastore connections to be monitored

Hello, the "jboss as"-sensor collects information about connections to datastores and provides it on the related dashboard (see example on attached screenshot).We need the same for springboot, therefore please add the capability to springboot-sens...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Delivered

Need the ability to threshold and Event on string values

Within Instana, I can use the Dynamic Focus Query to limit what I threshold on if something is an entity. But, there are many times where customers want to Event and alert on specific string values where the fields are not entities. For example, t...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

Oracle Tuxedo Domain Dashboard - Update what the 'Messages' Reflects

Under the prebuilt Oracle Tuxedo Domain dashboard that shows Machines, click the link to get to a dashboard view of that machine. On this dashboard page, there is a Queues section. Today, there is a column that shows 'Messages' in the table that r...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 2 Delivered

Ability to track Page Transitions & Geography details with automatic instrumentation

Automatic instrumentation provides an easy way to monitor websites with no extra configuration needed on the application/website pages. However, with this approach we are unable to track page transitions and geography details. It would be helpful ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Add Support for admin token-based authentication for Kong

Kong Sensor does not support admin token-based authentication. In our implementation Authentication is header based i.e in header we need to pass kong-admin-token. Please add support for admin token-based authentication .
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 1 Delivered

Space to add description to the Charts in instana dashboard

We don't have an option to add a small notes/ description about the particular chart when we scroll over the chart. Only Chart title will not be feasible to explain about the chart to team members. Please help to add the useful notes space on cust...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 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,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered