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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Source address to traces/calls

It would be great to have some kind of source information always visible for traces/calls. However it is not always feasible to have the source application instrumented, or even to have an Instana-agent installed on the source host/node. Could...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the Workload Widget to show where new workloads are coming from to properly estimate and manage Turbo licenses.

There is a widget called Workload Improvement – and it has 3 types, On-Prem, Cloud and Hybrid. I think it would be VERY useful if we add various parameters to this graph (focusing mostly on cloud) 1)Provider (aws, gcp, azure0 2) Subscription (Acco...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Add "Connection Pool" metric for JBoss EAP 7

I need to monitor the http connection pool usage on some jboss eap 7 instances. I am looking for the following metrics:- available in EAP 7.0.9 & 7.1. The runtime statistics can be obtained via JMX MBeans org.xnio:type=Xnio,provider="nio",work...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Add Release marker end timestamp

I can create and update a release marker and it has a timestamp for start and last-updated. Is it possible to express a time range, to show up a long deployment? At the moment, our pipelines create a release marker, after all pods in a rolling upd...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Common 0 Future consideration

Support for AHV VM storage

Currently AHV VHDs/disks are not stitched to VMs. Adding support would improve cloud migration planning and resizing/action recommendations.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Making it easy to identify SqlInjection

For HTTP calls performed by GET, when a SqlInjection or other types of intrussions, one of the parameters in the query string contains the atack command (SQL or OS). In the application perspective, it is possible to filter by the partial content ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration