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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Support Java21

Hello, We would like the Instana agent to be able to supervise java21 (as well as virtual threads). Best Regards
5 months ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

allowing Topology Manager to get all the informations about network interfaces of the devices on map imported from SevOne via dedicated observer

It is useful for all the opportunities in IBM that we must propose to customer where Watson AIOps and SevOne should be integrated.
almost 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 1 Delivered

TADDM Support for modern Key Exchange (Kex) algo for Linux Machines including curve25519-sha256@libssh.org

In order to perform any discovery on secured Linux Servers, RHEL 7 and 8 latest supported versions and hardened OS it is essential to support sha256 and sha512 Key Exchange algorithms. Currently TADDM does not support many of these algorithms incl...

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 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.
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered

Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

RightSize vCPU and vMem at the Same Time

For on-prem VMs, I’d like Turbo to be able to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time instead of requiring a reboot for each action - which further requires 2 separate outage windows because the recommendations go away for ~4 hours when a ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 4 Delivered

Allow to delete wasted files from Turbonomic UI

Turbonomic recommends actions to delete wasted storage files on datastores. I want the ability to manually accept these and have the files be deleted on the vCenter datastore.