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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 Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Add tag to modified RDS resource when action is executed

DFS is using RDS managed by OCP operator. In order to sync with operator configuration after turbo made RDS instance modification DFS would like Turbo to add a Tag to modified RDS DB, that would say ”Turbo modified - current configuration is ‘inst...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Have DWC role "API USER" control who can access a RESTAPI that runs against a zWS controller

Currently giving a userid the API USER role does not give the user access to run RESTAPI, neither does a user need to have the RESTAPI role so that they can run a RESTAPI against a zWS controller. All that is needed is the RACF userid and password...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for latest versions of Tornado web server

We would like to use Instana AutoTrace with Jupyter notebooks using version 6.3 of Tornado. Currently 6.2 is the highest supported version.
10 months ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

We are looking for an Instana Sensor to get resource and tracing metrics from MarkLogic DBs

This would be useful in complemting our services which call the ML databases.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Functionality to send email notifications when maintenance window is setup

Need to have the Functionality to send email notifications when a maintenance window is setup, goes active and when maintenance window ends. The email should contain who setup the maintenance window, window start time/end time, all CI's in mainten...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Get Request Payload and Header details for calls not visible in analyze

We would like to view details for the request payload and headers for api/endpoint in the analytics page. This would help in analyzing the request payload and troubleshooting of failures for api's.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 4 Functionality already exists

Get list view of Application services by CPU/memory utilization using Custom Dashboard

We need to get top list of cpu or memory utilization by service /application name as it will help identify which particular application is consuming high cpu/memory . This will facilitate team to take quick action.
10 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

SNMPv3 Engine ID changes

Incorporate the SNMPv3 engine id CHANGE natively within the product
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alerting on call drops of less than 30 min

It would be useful for us to have the possibility of being able to create alerts to supervise call drops of less than 30 minutes
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration