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Support for Java library - EclipseLink 2.1

Most of clients uses JPA (Java Persistence API) caching using the implementation of the EclipseLink Library. By having the support of this library will improve the visibility and a better end-to-end tracking and the CPU/MEM metrics as well JDBC Ca...
4 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Needs more information

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Add `stanctl plan` sub-command for planning stuff (e.g. upgrade, storage) in day 2

It’s a huge pain point nowadays when tying to do some day 2 operations at Instana backend. For example, when trying to upgrade to one desired version from current installed version, there might be a few “jumps”, based on the “upgrade from” info, t...
23 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor shared drive on Windows Server (SMB)

Request for Instana to add the ability to be able to monitor Windows shared drives (using SMB) in the same fashion that Linux NFS mount points are currently monitored. I am currently using Windows 2016 and Windows 2022 Standard Edition.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Planned for future release

Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these request
about 2 years ago in Instana 0 Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Enable Export of Logs Collected via OTEL Collector from Instana UI in File Formats

Currently, logs collected via the OTEL Collector cannot be exported from the Instana UI in formats such as CSV or XLSX. At present, it is possible to copy individual log messages using log links or by copying them to the clipboard. However, there ...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Metrica Alertable CURRENT_BLOCKING_SESSIONS de base de datos Oracle

Se requiere que la métrica CURRENT_BLOCKING_SESSIONS para las base de datos Oracle, pueda ser configurada en los nuevos eventos y así ante cualquier bloqueo en la base de datos la herramienta pueda alertar por correo electrónico. Machine translati...
13 days ago in Instana / Alert / Metric Store 1 Needs more information

Top List Widget issue - no data

An issue has been observed with displaying of the top list 50 widget. We are testing a self-hosted backend version 297, deployed in a k8s. With identical filter parameters but with the top list 20 value, the widget renders correctly. According to ...
14 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Add Python as client-side tracing for Elasticsearch

The tracing information for Python accessing Elasticserach Cluster is important since is widely used language.
27 days ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release