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Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Oracle OpenTelemetry link to db.sqlid.value to open monitor in new window

- Configure a Global link on Opentelemetry data-field: Db.sqlid (might want to make it generic.) - Link opens a predefined link https://<link>/<db.sqlid.value > in a new window. When a user clicks the value to db.sqlid, it opens a new ...
4 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

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...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

I want it to also support Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

I would like Microsoft.Data.SqlClient to be supported so that I can get SQL stack traces for instana.
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Tracing Granularity can show in microsecond

We know that the smallest unit ini Instana tracing is <1ms. somehow, there is couple of technology that sensitive to performance under 1 microsecond units. So, we hope that Instana can provide tracing in microsecond units instead of showing <...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Kubernetes CronJob Monitoring and Tracing

Ability to monitor CronJob as a separate service and enable tracing for CronJobs will help in monitoring the downstream calls just like other services. CronJobs can call other services using Rest APIs. It is helpful if we can monitor those Rest AP...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Tracing 8

Show stack trace on 1st call in a trace

Currently the customer is showing stack traces on 2nd call, but the first call in a trace doesn't contain stack trace. We need this functionality for analysis of the 1st call of the trace.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Enable Instana Agent Sampling

Enable Instana Agent to sample data e.g. traces. Best to do by customer configuration setting.
8 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration