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Add audit trail logging for Instana alert channel

Hi, While implementing Instana at a banking IT data center in Germany we discovered the need for logging the alert channel interactions that have happened. The automation framework already provides such an action history. We need exactly that for ...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Request to support locales other than English for DB on i.

Currently, the agent only supports the English locale for DB on i.However, many Japanese users have their locale set to Japan, and this situation is causing many IBM i users to miss out on the opportunity to use Instana. With support, Instana's bu...
5 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Format improvement on PDF export of custom dashboard widget

Hi team, please consider including more information within the axes when a custom dashboard is exported. This is a key missing part in order to understand the graphs being exported, and right now we cannot see any values displayed, which makes it ...
13 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Update BIOS in OVA distribution from legacy BIOS to EUFI

Current BIOS in Rocky Linux OVA is legacy BIOS. Customer is requesting an EUFI BIOS image.
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 5 Future consideration

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

SMART Alert - Add new metrics to support monitoring JBoss Modules

I have a customer that has several JBoss servers, each one with many JBoss modules that need to have to be monitored.Today we have to create custom events one by one. So we'd like to request an improvement in the Smart Alerts to avoid creating tho...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Java 0 Under review

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Instana, ADDI, and IBM Z Application Discovery

Instana's Current Capabilities On Power Systems LPARs: Instana can effectively discover applications through agents installed on the operating system, identifying processes, services, and their dependencies. On IBM Z Systems: Full support for z/Li...
18 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Needs more information

Container Platform Clusters - "Executed Actions - Succeded and Failed" widget with empty data

For Turbonomic, In the search -> Container Platform Clusters option, the "Executed Actions - Succeeded or Failed" widget doesn't display any data for a specific cluster. The customer opened a support case ticket (TS020249556) and the response f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Native Instana Support for Oracle GoldenGate (On-Prem & OCI)

Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) is a mission-critical replication technology widely used in financial services, retail, and telco customers. Today, Instana does not have a native sensor for OGG, which forces customers to rely on custom scripts, Prometheus...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review