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Missing traces for pods that run for about 5-10 minutes

The issue is caused because the instrumentation is not completed by the time the job completes its execution, which results in missing of trace data. We need the agent to be started - and running - before the application so we can instrument all t...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Support Grafana as a target for Turbonomic for observability/apm

Customer uses Grafana and would like support for it as a target configuration!
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Support for 'Dell Powerflex' & "NetApp Solifire' storage as Target in Turbonomic

We are planning to migrate our VMs (Vcenter) from solidfire to powerflex storage (storage vmotion only). This is a potential multi year long project of migrating PBs of data from one storage to other. We would to like to present TBN/Turbonomic as ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 5

Support for Temenos

We would like to request support for monitoring the Temenos Transact (T24) core banking platform within Instana. The customer is running Temenos Transact (T24) using a combination of: TAFC (Temenos Application Framework for C), and Java components...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration