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Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Needs more information

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

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...
about 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

We are looking for a solution to identify Turbonomic parking failures. If any VM that is part of the scheduler fails to start or stop at the scheduled time, we want to capture and review the log of that failure event.

We are looking for a solution to identify Turbonomic parking failures. If any VM that is part of the scheduler fails to start or stop at the scheduled time, we want to capture and review the log of that failure event. Please add a mechanism that h...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1 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...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

A status page for Turbonomic SaaS

Why is it useful? A dedicated SaaS status page for Turbonomic provides transparency to customers by delivering real-time updates on system performance, service availability, and ongoing incidents. This fosters trust and enhances the customer exper...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 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...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Calendar-Based Scheduling for Turbo Parking is require

Calendar-Based Scheduling for Turbo Parking is required to use turbo in full mode, we have some requirement mentioned below. we require a schedule where the servers need to be start/stop on every 2nd and 3rd Tuesday of a month, start time 6 PM EST...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration