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Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 5

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Automatic agent startup on AIX after server restart

When a server restarts, the agent does not start automatically up and observability could be lost. Although this can be done manually, there would be a margin for error.
28 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana Integration with performance test tool

Identification requests and calls from load tests to separate from another activities in order to facilitate the analysis
29 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

The instana agent should support running on jdk version 11+

From Instana's doc, jdk 11 is required to run the instana agent. Instana agent should be able to run on jdk 11+, e.g. the latest jdk version, as cusotmers will have policy to update all of their jdk versions in their IT environment.
29 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Synthetic POP support for the s390x architecture

In order to perform Synthetic Monitoring within Instana a Synthetic POP must be established. Unfortunately container images for Synthetic POP are only available for the x86 architecture. Our Instana environment is running on an OpenShift cluster t...
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0

Pacemaker Sensor

Pacemaker is essential to ensure true high availability (HA) of your services. Pacemaker Monitoring Objective:Monitor health of the cluster (nodes, quorum, resources, fencing)Measure health of the managed services (e.g. virtual IPs, web services, ...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Ability to compare APDEX against the previous week, previous window, or previous release.

By comparing APDEX across different timeframes or versions, users should be able to quickly spot performance trends (e.g., improvement, decline, stability) and identify any unexpected deviations or anomalies that require further investigation. The...
4 months ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Submitted

Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Submitted