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Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Mask Sensitive Data in URL - Tracking Data

We have a customer(Global Payments) use case scenario where our Instana shows the customer credit card information in the endpoint url, the customer is asking to hide/mask as its sensitive information.
3 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Add web browser resource monitoring to Website EUM

We are using Instana’s Website EUM to gain insights into frontend performance and user experience. However, we’ve encountered situations where users were unable to complete key workflows—such as transactions or form submissions—because their brows...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
1 day ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs

Currently, Instana's Otel Collector does not support integration with AWS Cloudwatch logs out of the box, which means that its integration with AWS service logs and event functions is inferior to that of its competitors.
4 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Submitted

We want the ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data. For example: We want to store only 7 days of data, and free up EBS space on 8th day.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
7 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted

AWS Fargate Agent (Node.js) needs drizzle support

The drizzle driver for postgres isn't traced in this Agent/sensor. Can we get that added into this agent for tracabilty in AWS RDS Postgres via the drizzle library?
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Adding functionality for correlating ACE services with the backend.

Hi Team, This AHA request is linked to IBM Support case TS019666166 regarding unmonitored components in our infrastructure. We request product enhancement to provide visibility and correlation for these components within Instana The component in q...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Submitted