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Instrumention module for gorm databases

We understand that for golang database/sql tracing is available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=go-collector-common-operations#how-to-instrument-a-database-connection-created-with-sqlopen). However we use gorm.Open...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 1 Delivered

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Monitoring Tibco BW - metrics

Hi, Based on Request #24197 and Request #24185 Tibco BW (https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks) is not supported by Instana. We have all our business logic there and right now we do not have any way to monitor or trace it. Business wo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 4 Delivered

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

User preveilages on Events and Alerts

We need to know how to manage Permissions for user/group for: User able to create event on his infrastructure scope / zone. it means that user can create event with threshold for cpu for example on his authorized host zone ONLY. and he can not see...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Provide enhancements to Span batching

Request to provide enhancements to Span batching. 1. Currently there is no option to disable batching. Request for an option to disable it. 2. Spans are batched based on some preconditions. If the spans pass the conditions, they are batched. In ca...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 5 Delivered

AWS Lambda ESM Support

Currently, the NodeJS instrumentation for AWS Lambda only supports CommonJS modules. As of earlier this year, AWS Lambda supports ES Modules which bring a variety of benefits. Because of this, we're having to manually trace NodeJS lambdas.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node / Tracing 1 Delivered

Support Apache Camel Version > 3.13

For Apache Camel Tracing only versions until 3.13 are supported. Version 3.13 is outdated and should not be used anymore. As the current LTS versions are 3.14.4 and 3.18.0 Instana should support these version as soon as possible, as we are not abl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 1 Delivered