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Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
11 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Need to trace incoming calls for applications exposed via 3Scale

Dear Colleagues, we have a customer who is using 3Scale to expose their application APIs to the Internet. At the moment they successfully trace backend calls with Instana and see errors when they happen. However they can't exactly match incoming c...
11 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
11 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version

IBM MQ tracing on IBM i does not work with newer libstdcplusplus6 12.4.0-3 version, the workaround was to downgrade the lib to 10.5.0-2 Already discussed with Brock Shamblin I think we should either provide a support or mention this in the documen...
21 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
2 months ago in Instana / API-C 2 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Consistent Proxy Support Across All Instana Agent Sensors via configuration.yaml and Environment Variables

While some Instana agent sensors, such as the AWS sensor, already support proxy configuration, this functionality is not consistently available across all sensors. In particular, sensors like Prometheus do not currently support proxy settings, eit...
3 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Needs more information

Native Instana agent collection of Nvidia DCGX telemetry and Nvidia appliances healthcheck

Following the guide on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=applications-monitoring-gpu-public-preview we were able to bring some data into Instana using OpenTelemetry and prometheus format collection and processing of t...
6 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Under review

WebMethods Integration Server internall calls filtering

Hello, Currently there is a functionality that enables monitoring of all WebMethods Integration Server internall calls https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=machine-configuring-java-sensor#enabling-internal-service-calls-...
12 days ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted