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Time slicer

In some situations it is more practical to have a time slicer. The purpose here is to fix the relative time (i.e. a week) but move the slicer over a timeframe to look at data from a week with various start dates.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Future consideration

Implementing a RBAC based access for displaying the PII information in the tracing details

Hi Team, As we were evaluating the usage of Instana Real user monitoring, we saw a concern about all users be able to see the PII information like user name and email address, however we want to limit these details only to a specific set of users...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Instana needs to create a sensor agent to observe Spectrum Scale on Linux on Z

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and is investing heavily in a hybrid cloud platform inclusive of Instana. We want to make use of this footprint and Instana observability capabilities across our hybrid cloud, withou...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 5 Future consideration

Mark "downstream" services accordingly and filter them in the dashboard

Once you select "Automatically include Downstream Services in Applications" it would be interesting to: (1) See the "downstream services" marked as such in the "services" list and dependancy map etc. (2) Have an ability to turn on/off the downstr...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Actualfree and free memory usage - AIX server monitoring

Its has been noticed that the memory usage under the infrastructure monitoring is reporting incorrect readings. After working with the support, found that instana use Sigar library to collect the memory metrics, which offers two values free and ac...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Change the data return policy of application metrics

We noticed that application metrics for applications that are rarely called are not representative after 32 days. So in this case, we would like Instana to give us average data per time slot (even if it means losing time granularity, but not going...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Future consideration