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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Monitoring mainframe call

Our user need to monitor mainframe call but at this time we can't instrumenting the technology(mainframe library)
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Not under consideration

Would like to see an intermediate state between enabled and draft for IWA schedules

Most of our application teams have their schedules set up in the non-prod environments to mimic production, including the run cycles. This simplifies the production promotions as we can copy the objects and change the workstations they run on for ...
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
12 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Need to know STIG considerations for IWS 9.5.5. Applied STIG but now hanging at StartUp.

will allow us to run IWS software on STIG applied Linux and Windows servers
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Meta Data in traces and end-user beacons used for smart alarm metrics

We tried to create smart alarm with using our website's metadata in traces and end-user beacons. With the current version, we can use these for filtering the available smart alarm metrics but we can't create alarms based on them. Some errors can b...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Variable that has the mm/dd/yyyy format and at time = hh:mm

zWorkload Scheduler provides the &ODY1 variable to populate a date when creating email alerts. We would like to see variables that allow for a formatted date and time, to be included in the email alert. For example: We would like to see a vari...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Mobile App Monitoring - App starts and views performance metrics

Hello, I would like to know if features concerning mobile app performances will be developped in the future ? We are currently using Google's Firebase SDK to track metrics like 'Application start duration' and slow rendering / frozen frames but it...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 2 Future consideration

Filter on exit endpoints (Capture http headers for exit calls)

Hello, We are facing an issue due to restrictions in Instana. We can't get contextual informations on endpoints going to non instrumented applications.The consequence is that we can't manage incidents the same way if they come from an internal or ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to share custom dashboard with a group of users

Hi team, Currently it's only possible to have private or public custom dashboard. However when the dash is public it's for everyone with a choice of editors, but we would like to have also the choice of the viewers. Could you please open an FR on ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration