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Data Retention after Out of Memory error.

IBM Support Ticket TS014348006 describes a scenario where data in Instana is removed after a JVM on a host suffers an Out of Memory error. We can understand why data would not be available from the time of the error and until service is restored, ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

The capacity values are different from temporarily created groups (by Turbonomic) VS groups created by users

This Idea is being raised from the bug ticket opened in Turbonomic JIRA- https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/TRB-52963. This bug came up from JPMC. For example, there are a total of 8 hosts in the entire environment, the capacity of memory is only 3 TB/hos...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow the Instana agent to monitor CP4BA

Creating this idea but we also have created a case b/c we do not know if this is a defect or enhancement req. Problem Description:Currently, Instana cannot monitor CP4BA. CP4BA has made their container image filesystems readonly and the Instana ag...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Needs to monitor swap/paging metrics for AIX hosts

We need to monitor and alert on swap/paging metrics for AIX and Windows hosts. After having configured events for these metrics, they triggered incorrectly for AIX and Windows and instana support confirmed with engineering that they only provide t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

"Non-Disruptive" and "Reversible" Filter

This is an idea for the filter when creating a group. The customer would like to create a group with the attributes of being Non-Disruptive and Reversible (or at least one of them) for the volume. However, it seems that currently, we cannot use th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Custom time period at top of page to apply to all widgets on page

I’d like the ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page (Dashboards, regular VM/Group pages, etc) so it propagates to all the widgets/graphs – similar to how the limited selections do now. When using Turbo to evaluate utilization or r...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Top database & container pod information bulk download function

If we download from the Top Virtual Machines widget, we can download all virtual machine information at once.However, in the case of Top Container Pods , workload Controllers , Container Specs , Namespace , Databases,We can only download 50 pieces...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration