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Identify Source of the Calls in Instana

If applications are running on a server on which Instana agent is deployed and those applications make calls to destination application which is properly instrumented by Instana, we should be able to see source details in Instana like source IP/ho...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Needs more information

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Need ACE OTEL traces to correlate to the proper ACE infrastructure

I'm working with a customer that has deployed ACE with OpenTelemetry tracing on traditional servers. When we diagnose problems and drill into the traces, the link from the trace to the Infrastructure links to the Host Agent for the ACE server. Thi...
about 2 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to specifically filter traces by values of "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time

As stated in the title, having the possibility to group and filter by "Self Time" /Network Time/ Waiting time would be extremely helpful to troubleshoot if the network got worse etc.
16 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Monitoring Forked Processes in PHP

Description: We would like to propose the addition of functionality to monitor forked processes in PHP. Currently, there are monitoring tools available for PHP, but there is a lack of capability to monitor specifically forked processes. This is pa...
about 2 months ago in Instana / PHP 2 Planned for future release

System Capacity filter

Previously I can setup filesystem capacity event alert with "entity.host.filesystems.fs.name" filter under scope. Unfortunately this filter has been obsoleted and Instana introduced NO alternative solution to this. Instana support advised to confi...
17 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

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.
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Instana running within an OCP cluster that has both Power and x86 worker nodes.

Customer is currently running Docker based Instana within a OCP cluster comprised of Power master and worker nodes. They plan to upgrade to OCP v4.16 when it's released in June/July and add x86 worker nodes. At that point their 2 OCP clusters will...
17 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted