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Status Future consideration
Workspace Instana
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 15, 2023

Monitoring SMTP calls for services

View the smtp requests made by the selected/desired service in instana. We have lot of applications that use SMTP to send emails, we expect to see the total call , success and failure count and response time metrics in instana.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Apr 12, 2024

    It would be good if Instana trace sensor can identify outbound SMTP call similar to Database, HTTP, etc.

    Trimmed Message: [1712382153666]javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25;

    nested exception is:

    java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)

    at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1391)

    at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:412)

    at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:288)

    at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:169)

    at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:118)

  • Admin
    Rodoljub Radivojevic
    Reply
    |
    Dec 20, 2023

    Since we have many commitments to customers, prospects, and escalations, our roadmap is full for the next ~3 quarters and we don't have enough capacity to work on this feature.

    After this period we will reconsider this feature.

    Thank you for your understanding and patience.