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    Synthetic PoP support for ARM architecture

    Please consider to add official ARM64 compatible images for all Instana self hosted Synthetic PoP components. ARM architecture proves to be ever more popular and this feature would enable teams to fully migrate to this new ecosystem. PS: Please co...
    3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

    Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

    The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
    2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

    Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

    We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
    about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

    Provision of a Dedicated Proxy Server for Instana SaaS

    Currently, Instana SaaS requires several configurations after deploying the Agent in order to communicate with the backend server. In general, a large number of ports need to be opened, and when setting up a proxy, various elements such as the TLS...
    7 months ago in Instana / IBM Networks 1 Under review

    Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

    Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
    3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

    Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

    There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
    30 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

    Introducing automatic instrumentation for WebSphere Application Server

    Hi Team, We are struggling with configuring website monitoring for a core banking system deployed using IBM WebSphere application server. And we are not getting support from the core banking vendor to add the ieum script provided by Instana and we...
    2 months ago in Instana / WAS 0 Under review

    Enable Events, Alerts, and Dashboards for OracleDB Custom Polling Metrics

    Currently, Instana does not support creating Events, Alerts, or Custom Dashboards based on the OracleDB custom polling metrics documented here: Monitoring OracleDB. Several of our clients who use OracleDB have requested the ability to leverage the...
    2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 1 Under review

    Instana ACE Tracing Should Not Modify MQ RFH2 Header or Message ID

    Problem statement: Enabling ACE tracing for Instana introduces changes to MQ message structure (e.g., RFH2 header, CCSID, and traceparent field). This behavior breaks message compatibility with existing systems expecting unmodified MQ headers. Enh...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Under review

    Enable real time monitoring (and alerting) of user activity to capture IBM Consulting Advantage (ICA) user's prompt to the LLM and response back.

    This will enable real time monitoring of user prompts and responses to check for in appropriate language, PII data used and other related use cases. Automated monitoring and alerting (for ex triggering email to support Distribution Lists and invol...
    about 1 month ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Under review

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