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Need to collect traces from Kotlin applications (ktor)

Dear colleagues, a customer uses a lot of applications on Kotlin with ktor. They would like to use native way to collect calls from the application. OpenTelemetry is an option, but it requires additional efforts for configuration and maintenance. ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support Scaling Actions for GCP Sole Tenancy Workloads

In GCP you can deploy workloads on Sole Tenancy Nodes, typically large projects. We would want to optimize workloads running on sole tenancy nodes to achieve more savings. Currently, Turbo discovers those workloads without actions.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Azure DDoS Protection event

A customer asked to add Azure DDoS Protection as an event in Instana. The use case is that is there is an DDOS attack and most traffic are blocked but not all. The traffic that gets through might cause some issues on the application and it would b...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

long SQL query limit

when an application run long SQL queries in a call, the query seems to be cut of after 4096 characters. In my case the query is generated from MS Dynamics 365 and I would like to see the 'Group by' and 'where' statements as well, to determind if t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

• Custom Service Detection

With a custom service detection, we need to create a custom service and monitor specifying class and methods. Instana is partially capable of doing it at the moment. however it requires to change the code itself and it is nearly impossible to do i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Tracing extra-http-headers, extra headers are not available for thresholding and dashboarding

When using Tracing extra-http-headers, the custom header information is not available for use within Smart Alerts or within Custom Dashboards. com.instana.tracing: extra-http-headers: Customers want to be able to use the extra header parameters as...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future 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