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Instana

Need autotrace-webhook to support instrumentation nginx proxy with custom configs

Hello Team, our customer uses Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy calls to their application. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for most of them. We’ve adjusted autotace-...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Create equivalent reporting for Instana based on Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) ITM agents and Z Enterprise agents

ITM and TCR are deprecated so customers who have moved away from ITM to Instana no longer have the reporting functionality
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

Enable Export of Events Tab Data to CSV or Provide API Query Builder

Instana's Events tab provides valuable insights into application and infrastructure behavior, but currently lacks a straightforward way to export this data for external analysis. I propose adding one or both of the following features: CSV Export...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Need to trace core banking application based on Temenos

Dear Colleagues, our customer is using Temenos software as a core banking application and they miss tracing of the application. There are few traces: - com.temenos.t24 - com.temenos.tafj (com.temenos.tafj.runtime.statements.jStatements:READ) pleas...
10 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration