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Instana

Need to recognise graceful shutdown of operating systems

Hello Team, we have a customer who is asking for the functionality of Instana to recognise if the restart was manual (graceful) or accidental like power outage, hangs, hardware malfunction. The information helps to reduce time SRE engineers spend ...
5 months ago in Instana / Node 0 Under review

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support for downstream call visibility for applications using both KafkaBatchListener (batch processing) and standard Kafka listeners (single record processing)

When com.instana.kafka.correlate.send.receive flag is set to true, downstream calls may not be captured for implementations using KafkaBatchListener. We need simultaneous visibility into our application which uses both methods (KafkaBatchListener ...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Need to be able to trace some fields from body

Dear colleagues, Our customer is very interested in monitoring and tracing some body attributes and parameters. Like transaction details for development and troubleshooting. also would be useful to monitor a handled errors when for example header ...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Feature Request: Saved Time Ranges

We would like to request a new feature: the ability to save and name custom time ranges. Currently, when we investigate an incident, we have to manually re-select the exact time frame every time. It is also difficult to share this specific time wi...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Otel tags in log volume Analysis

Add Open Telemetry tags filter group in log volume to facilite analysis volumetry sent directly to Instana Backend (without passing through Instana Agent)
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Not under consideration

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Planned for future release