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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

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...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 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

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

loading the base-domain URL should forward the user to the tenant-unit.baseDomain URL for login

We learned from working on the Case "TS019337924 Different login experience", that the following behaviour is the status-quo for k3s selfhosted Instana (3.291.396-0): The URL https://basedomain.de (login fails in your env) is valid just after a fr...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Delivered

Support for Redis Sensor on native IBM i Agent

Redis is data service that is one of the most popular NoSQL DBs.
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Delivered

Instana Agents Installation on FIPS Enabled Hosts

Instana agent installation fails on hosts that have FiPS enabled. The only way that we found to install on these hosts is manually using the following command: sudo rpm -ivh --nodigest --nofiledigest Since this command is bypassing a security meas...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3 Delivered

Harden Instana: Add Content Security Policy Header (CSP) + disable directory listings on Instana Frontend

1) The Instana UI Web Application should add a Content Security Policy to its header to prevent XSS and running scripts from unknown/insecure sources: see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP 2) For some URIs in Instana UI Web App...
9 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance / User Interface 0 Delivered