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Instana

    Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

    One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
    6 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

    Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

    As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
    over 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

    Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

    Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
    11 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

    Remove reliance on Environment Variables for tracing.

    Currently tracing with .Net utilises environment variables. The limitations of this are that when we want to enable/disable autotracing we have to restart the traced application. This is incredibly disruptive to high demand production environments...
    6 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

    Java Configuration-based SDK need support LMAX disruptor framework

    We have a major business partner(Worldline - a world wild payment solution provider) is using LMAX disruptor within their new generation payment solution(PaySuite), they would like to partner with us to leverage Instana as the primary observabilit...
    6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

    Need to automatically detect and bypass older and unsupported .NET applications

    We are deploying the Agent into a Windows .NET environment. The server has a mixture of older IIS Hosted .NET 4.0 applications, .NET 4.5 and newer, and .NET core applications. Instana is attempting to auto-instrument the .NET 4.0 applications and ...
    11 months ago in Instana / .NET 0 Planned for future release

    Mobile version for Instana UI

    Dear Colleagues, our customer asks for Instana UI suitable for mobile browsers or mobile applications for Android/iOS. When administrators far from PC it would help to reduce overall MTTR when they see incident details and perform preliminary inve...
    11 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

    More details about unmonitored servers or components

    Ability to automatically identify candidate servers for monitoring because they interact with the monitored applications or servers. This will uncover any relationships with critical application elements that may have been overlooked in current ob...
    11 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

    Missing endpoints for logs on Instana API Service Catalogue

    we have internal client's looking for logs search by API endpoints and its a missing content into Intana service catalogue. Instana API docs
    12 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    12 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

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