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Need tracing support for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Dear colleagues, we have a large customer who uses WSO2 Enterprise Integrator (java app): https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/blob/release-6.6.0 when they instrument it they miss half of calls. They see much more calls in Dynatrace, it affects Inst...
11 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to events/alerts/etc

Would like the ability to add more than 10 Application Perspective's to event/alerts. This would allow us to add more Application Perspective's to one alert instead of creating multiple of the same alert to cover the Application Perspective's that...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Enabling tracing on Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a hybrid multi-cloud platform to manage APIs in all environments, although today we have metrics on the solution already enabled are not enough to identify the transactions that go through the platform, for this reason it i...
11 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Future consideration

Enhancement in MQ Events

As part of testing MQ Events, we tried to create an event integrated with PagerDuty. Once the event is triggered below JSON data event gets published to Pager Duty as an event API. { "client": "Instana", "client_url": https://prod-loblaw.instana-t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ 1 Functionality already exists

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Top Hosts By System Uptime

Today, we have the host uptime information when looking at the 'Started At' data when drilling into an individual host. We would like to see the top hosts based on uptime duration on a custom consolidated dashboard so we can see which one(s) have ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
11 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

On agents, create the ability to only specify certain sensors instead of trying to implement all possible sensors

We've found that it's really difficult to blacklist certain agent sensors since there are so many different processes on developer workstations that run with .net or java. It starts to collect information on a lot of products and you have to spend...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration