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MSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host

Since theMSSQL sensor does not support extracting the port from multiple instances(running on two different ports) on the same host.We can extract either the default port without the configuration or the non default port which is configured via co...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Enable functionality to display Disk Size Utilization

While Turbonomic might not be able to take action to downsize a particular disk based on utilization, it would be a good value-add to present this data, so that users could see if they need to replace the drive with one more appropriately sized fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Implement Agent Request Buffering to Prevent Metric Outages

Dear Instana Product Team, I would like to propose the implementation of a request buffering mechanism within the Instana agent to mitigate and avoid metric outages during periods of network instability or high latency. Problem Statement Currently...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Instana Mode set as IQM not be defaulted back to APM on machine reboot

We were doing our monthly patching on mongo machines where the Instana mode was showing as IQM in GUI of Instana and on the machine console as well.[ec2-user@mng3~]$ sudo cat /opt/instana/agent/etc/instana/com.instana.agent.main.config.Agent.cfg# ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Is a defect

Installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System

Support installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration