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Instana console showing servers in offline state

There happend a case where a few servers had instana agent stopped running and they stopped showing up on the console infrastructure monitoring. There should be a way in the instana console where we can see the server being shown in the map or in ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Functionality already exists

Support for FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP, a PHP server built on top of Caddy, was recently adopted by the PHP Foundation (see https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation and https://github.com/php/frankenphp), and it can be us...
2 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 0 Future consideration

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
7 months ago in Instana / DB2 1 Future consideration

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.
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana needs to support AutoTrace for OpenResty pod

Instana declares the support tracing for 3scale's OpenResty container. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-nginx#other-supported-information But its support is limited for the manual instrumentat...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Future consideration

Adding a Javascript API(Function) in Instana Javascript Agent(eum.min.js) for improving SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring

Currently, there's only one function, "autoPageDetection - True" of javaScript agent(eum.min.js) for SPA(Single Page Application) monitoring in Instana EUM. This is quite a good approach to SPA developed via the development framework such as React...
2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 2 Functionality already exists

log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration