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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Adding support EntityFramework Core 6

Provide the same functionality to EntityFramework Core 6 as it exists for: Entity Framework .NET >= 2, >= 3.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Functionality already exists

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 0 Future consideration

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Enabling Java Profiling for Applications running on Kubernetes

Currently, we only have Instana AutoProfile to support for Java applications which is running on EC2 instacnes. However we want similar feature for an application which is running on Kubernetes hosts as a conatiner application.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Functionality already exists

Instrumentation for Spring Native

Please add support for Spring Native to Instana - all tracing and infrastructure monitoring, custom metrics (e.g. micrometer).
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 5 Not under consideration

Prompt user to login (two use cases)

Customer would like to be prompted to either login after an expired session in UI or when he is trying to do something that requires that he is logged in. Perhaps this could be configured with Session settings. The problem is UI lets users do a lo...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Future consideration

Capture resource statistics outside of page load phase

EUM tickets from Conrad: - we don't record asset loadings once page load phase is over - reason for this is that the user could potentially record a lot of garbage data - this needs a proper strategic evaluation - also could result in much more da...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups

Ability to map Google SSO groups to Instana groups
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Tracing through Ivory & CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) with Instana

SOAP endpoints running in CICS are recognised in Instana as endpoints only when served through an Ivory Server and the CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG). Native CTG tracing should provide insights required to expose endpoints as Service entities in I...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration