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Status Needs more information
Workspace Instana
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 27, 2025

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.
Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running workloads to troubleshoot if they are hung or stuck in a loop. For such threads, need to ability to terminate them to free up resources.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Aysha Kanakkovil
    Sep 2, 2025

    Hi @SRIDHAR Venkatesh

    We had a look into this and it looks like what customer is expecting are the below,
    1. Details of long running / hung threads
    2. Provision to kill those threads.

    Incase of #1, This is not supported by the Sensor the way we are collecting data as of now.
    But before making a conclusion, would like to get more details on the requirement. Had seen the following in the 'Field Feedback' tab.
    "This is part of an ITCAM to Instana conversion. They are running ITCAM for Diagnostics and see Gaps in Instana which are causing them to stop the conversion".
    So will it be possible to get some details around what all details as mentioned in the requirement are they seeing in ITCAM.

    Incase of #2, we don't have a provision to kill specific threads of the JVM we are monitoring and not sure if it is even achievable by an agent that attaches to JVM.
    Although generating thread dumps is something we already have the capability for. Please see the screenshot below.