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Kafka connection using username and password

It would be very useful to have the possibility for the agent to connect to kafka instances using username and password. This feature would help for better audit checks and security.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

User-defined CCSID handling of Z APM (Instana z/OS)

For Instana z/OS, when it tries to add the RFH V2 header for CICS-MQ-CICS or Outbound tracking - it would convert some data between IBM500 and the CCSID in the MQ header(s), by using z/OS Unicode conversion services to do the conversion. If the CC...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Delivered

Self-hosted synthetic pop deployment via stanctl - "stanctl pop up"

Implement`stanctl pop up` including k3s installation.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered

support requests routed by the Apache Sling

Requests routed by the Apache Sling is not properly handled by the Java Trace plugin. We have noticed that Instana is capturing Apache Sling calls as erroneous calls. We have raised a support ticket with Instana support and the suggestion was to r...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 11 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

Exclude traces from Java´s endpoints.

Optimizing data ingestion in Instana, customer needs to exclude tracing from Java´s endpoint,
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Delivered

Request for Multi-Domain Compatibility for SharePoint Environments in Instana

Instana currently lacks support for monitoring SharePoint environments spread across multiple domains, which is essential for BWI’s infrastructure. BWI operates a complex, multi-domain SharePoint setup, and without this feature, they cannot captur...
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 0 Delivered

Retrigger open events after a maintenance window

The use of a maintenance window is to prevent events/issues/alerts during a period which systems, transactions or metrics are expected to go outside the normal range of values/behavior. After the maintenance window, the event/alerts/smart alert sh...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Mike Hofmann

The instana kafka sensor is monitoring kafka with zookeeper config only. ZK is deprecated in future releases of kafka and will be replaced by kRaft. We have need to monitor a kafka/KRaft setup. This AHA request is a follow-up of case opened for th...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Cyberark Plugin to TWS

Would like the ability to call cyberark to pull password for users for injection into new job types for LWA
almost 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered