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Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

User/Idle Session timeout should make currently open page unreadable

This is to improve Instana Security Footprint. When Instana UI User/Idle Session timeout triggers, only a small red popup on top right is shown saying you need to reautenticate, but the currently open page is still readable , potenially exposing s...
10 months ago in Instana / Access Control / User Interface 7

Instana OpenTelemetry Correlation for Pure OTel Scenarios

We have a pure OpenTelemetry setup where the OtelCollector directly exports data to the Instana SaaS backend, without any Instana Agent in between. Currently, entity correlation across layers like ApplicationPerspective > Service > Endpoint ...
5 months ago in Instana / Integrations 3

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Support for Node.JS Sensor on native IBM i Agent

This is beneficial to expand tracing to applications utilizing Node.JS.
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords

Instana Synthetics should support CyberArk to store the passwords
2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Expand the Tomcat/WebSphere agent extension to include JVM metrics

The base Tomcat and WebSphere extension does not capture the hosting JVM CPU, memory life cycle, Heap, Garbage Collection, and if the Java Instrumentation is initialized, the agent will use the Java extension to gather the JVM metrics. However, th...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release