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Instana

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Cost of ownership / internal charge back use-case

The customer is using LeanIX for "application inventory". They would like to add a tag (which in this case would contain the unique leanix id) to the application perspectives so a correlation can be done. The request to us is to consider allowing ...
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Sensor/Metrics for AWS Auto Scale Groups

Would be really useful to map scaling activity across time/Alert on maximum scale reached. ASG could be also used to determine online/offline. 
over 5 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Support Grafana template variables

The grafana plugin doesn't support template variables, can we please enable them?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

Provide Cache metrics for JBoss DataGrid

Instana should expose metrics about the general per-cache behaviour for short-term analysis with transaction correlation and long-term for capacity planning and analyzability.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Not under consideration

HAproxy reload is supported

Whenever HAProxy gets reloaded (because rules changed), the HAProxy process will get a new PID. Instana at this point will record the HAProxy as a new instance and this loop will continue over and over. Could we get this fixed?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Extend Instana Server upgrade support version range to support more version jumps

Issue: For Instana server upgrade, there is a limitation that the target version can not be bigger 3 than the current version. For example, Instana 209 can be updated to 211 and 213, but can not be updated to 215. Workaround: To upgrade from 209 t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration