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Instana

Listen for Additional Slack Message Removal/Quarantine Events

Slack provides mechanisms for quarantining/hiding messages from the UI as part of their Data Loss Prevention system. This allows administrators to hide messages that are potentially sensitive in nature until they are reviewed, and released or dele...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0

Use Real Name Instead of Slack Username with Slack App Integration

The Slack username field is deprecated, and not user editable. Slack has since switched to using real/display names which allow users to update them over time (e.g. name changes as part of marriage). Switching from username to real/display name wo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0

Support for NetMQ

Customer is using NetMQ and would like insight into this technology. NetMQ is a 100% native C# port of the lightweight messaging library ZeroMQ. https://github.com/zeromq/netmq
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

WebMethods Integration Server Support

We need a WebMethods Integration Server 10.x support for our customer. In the flow where WebMethods Integration Server resides, the JVM is the smallest component that has calls passing through it, just like WebSphere Application Server. Thus, the ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
11 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
8 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
12 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Under review

Need more security granularity in API Tokens

Customer needs more granularity in the API Tokens. Today, when setting up API Tokens, you can restrict the types of access to things like Websites, Application, Infrastructure, and whether or not they are read-only or administrative permissions. T...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

OpenLIT support for LLM application

Other APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog and Dynatrace now support OpenLIT for monitoring LLM applications. It supports OpenTelemetry-native auto-instrumentation to trace LLMs, agents, vector databases and GPUs with zero-code. It's more similar conc...
about 2 months ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Submitted