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Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
12 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Enhancing the RUM(Real User Monitoring) of Instana by the feature like Dynatrace's Visual Complete.

Currently, Instana’s "onLoad time" metric does not include XHR (XMLHttpRequest) or fetch requests that occur after the initial page load. The "onLoad time" is specifically defined as the time from fetchStart to loadEventEnd according to the browse...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 5 Not under consideration

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

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 ...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Need a lighter weight solution for autotrace webhook

Customers use the autotrace-webhook to avoid having to manually configure each and every deployment that they deploy into their kubernetes environment. But, the current implementation of the autotrace webhook is pretty heavy weight and can cause s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

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 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Show the SQL query on traces from CICS transactions to DB2/z

Shows a real E2E which includes the query at the end.
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
15 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
16 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review