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Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Planned for future release

Support monitoring for onPrem OpenSearch clusters

It would help us a lot if Instana would support the monitoring of an OpenSearch cluster even if not the AWS service is used. Currently we're replacing some onPrem ElasticSearch Clusters with OpenSearch Clusters (also onPrem). ElasticSearch is supp...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

User re-invitation feature is required in Instana SaaS

Currently, there's no re-invitation of User in Instana SaaS. The only way to re-invite specific user is to delete and create again. It's very very inconvenient for our Instana users when re-invitation is needed.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Need a way to detect that the input rate on a queue is exceeding the output rate

The customer has applications where the consuming application components occasionally have problems. They don't consume the messages off the queue fast enough. If this happens for a very short period of time, it is not a problem. But, when it occu...
5 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring Oracle Database Locks

Monitoring an Oracle RAC on pluggable databases. Customer is able to see tracing details to the database cluster (not specific instance) but they are missing a very critical aspect to complete the database monitoring in oracle which is database lo...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release