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Request for Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8.0.11 tracing support

Hello, We are doing an Instana POC, and we need your support on the .NET Npgsql tracer. The application to be monitored is deployed on AWS ECS Fargate. Also, it connects to AWS Aurora (Postgres) DB using the Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL 8...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Tracing Delivered

Support for new IBM Power11 Systems

Since the release of the Power11 platform, Turbonomic has also needed to support the new version of HMC as a target, in order to meet customer demand for upgrades or migrations to the new P11 platform.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM Delivered

Integration between Concert Workflows and Ansible Automation Platform

Is useful because actually Concert Workflows is integrated only with Ansible Tower (that use different API). Using the Ansible Tower authentication and building blocks in Concert are not working with Ansible Automation platiform (Looking at the An...
6 months ago in Concert Workflows Delivered

Instana IBMi Host Discovery of IBM HTTP Apache Host Service

Currently, our customer is discovering all Springboot and WebSphere Services but we are not discovering their Apache Tomcat Services and stitching them in our Services Dependency Mapping. This is critical for our Worldpac to have End to End Visibi...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM i Delivered

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
12 months ago in Instana / Agent Delivered

The new Commitment Portfolio column preference feature is limited in flexibility and requires further enhancement.

Allow users to fully customize and persist their preferred column selections within the Commitment Portfolio view, ensuring that these preferences are saved across sessions and can be tailored to different organizational needs.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

The name of a hierarchical BM should be changed

As of now, we are unable to rename the hierarchical BM. If you need to change the name of a Hierarchical Business Mapping, you would likely need to delete the existing one and create a new one with the desired name.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Delivered

Kong API Tracing

In Instana, Kong API gateway monitoring is limited in basic metrics moniotring but not support for tracing. However, from our Instana In Instana, the current monitoring capabilities for Kong API Gateway are limited to basic metrics and do not supp...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing Delivered

A user, who has a metric restriction filter, is able to use the menu items "Block resources" and "Purge metric data". This shouldn't be available for normal users, only for admins.

A restriction filter (access only to one metric group) is defined and assigned to user. The user is only able to see one metric group, so this means that the restriction filter itself is working. The problem is now, that the user is able to choose...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Delivered

Turbonomic Parking Schedules - missing time zone offset

Can the time zone in turbonomic parking schedules also show the law text difference, or offset, of the local time from UTC. This is currently displayed in PMC and administrators use this infomation to accurately set schedules to meet strict busine...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Delivered