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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Export data comparison table

Hello, By performing a filter on our machines on the comparison table view. It would be interesting to be able to export all the machines that we see. This will allow us to use them for scripts or to transfer them Sincerely
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

support NodeJS PrismaORM or the DB dependencies thereof

Instana currently does not auto discover DB queries made to MySQL through the PrismaORM package (https://www.prisma.io/). Presumably it's not Prisma that needs to be instrumented, but rather the DB Driver it uses (MariaDB?).
about 2 years ago in Instana / Node 3 Delivered

Ability to enrich alerts regarding websites

UseCase: Mydealz-Alertingwe always get a lot of traffic via Mydealz (for example with price errors). This can put too much load on the shop. That's why we want to be able to automatically block certain ProductDetailPages.Alerting is currently alre...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Delivered

Abilty to alert on EUM resources using SmartAlerts

currently The customer has the issue that sometimes google analytics is not working for our website "ccp-frontend-new". For that time they see in Instana that there are no resources loaded for GA (which is great to see).Therefore The customer want...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Alert 3 Delivered

Support most recent Postgres JDBC Drivers (42.6+)

Following on from this case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002obXXWAA2/instana-trace-missing-expected-sql-execution?language=en_US It seems Instana supports JDBC (PostgreSQL) [7.4, 7.4], [8.4, 8.4], [9.0, 9.1] , however t he latest v...
6 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.

Add functionality to export data dashboard data(in CSV or other consumable format). This can be an export button which outputs a CSV for the Dashboard data.Currently there is no functionality to do this in the UI.
7 months ago in Instana / Common 2 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Oracle Multitenant support

We have various Oracle Server with Multitenant Container Database (CDB) and Instana with the Oracle database configuration show and monitor only the "system" CDB, not the PDB's. We want to know if this feature will be supported in the near future,...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Azure AppService .NET Core tracing support

I would like support for Azure AppService .NET Core. Currently, only instrumentation of AppService for .Net Framework 4.5.1+ workloads is supported.
11 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Delivered