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Instana

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Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
10 months ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

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

Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Mean on each call for the synthetics

Hello, today when we create a synthetic, we can view in the result tab the informations about each call and subcall. My idea would be to create a new tab on the synthetic view that compile a mean for each value of each calls on all the synthetic r...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 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

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

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
8 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 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

Instana Synthetic scripts to support SOAP/WSDL format

Instana Synthetic scripts should natively support SOAP/WSDL communication. There's a lot of legacy applications, which are still using SOAP/WSDL method and which should be monitored by Instana scripts.
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted