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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Websites/More metrics in Page Load trace

Based on many comments received from customers we will value you consider adding the following key metrics in the page load trace of websites:OnLoadTimeDOM TimeFirst PaintFirst byte timeRequestResponse Thank you.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

.NET Core and Framework Profiling on Windows

When developing software you sometimes run into memory leaks or high CPU that are difficult to explain. Profiling can help to identify the root cause so the issue can be solved. This feature already exist for Linux: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ins...
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET / Azure 2 Not under consideration

Support for r2dbc

Hi team, opening this feature request on behalf of a customer to support monitoring of r2dbc projects which is "the new cool way to access databases" :) Comments from customer:"we have a fully reactive Spring-Boot application which uses R2DBC to a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Ignore/ suppress / downtime function for events

Currently there is function called "Maintenance windows" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=alerts-scheduling-maintenance-windows This is lacking the functionality to prevent the events from showing up in the Events lo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Common 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds for all JVM custom metric sources

It appears only prometheus-java-client-library has the possibility to change pollIntervalSeconds and changing it DOES NOT appear to affect the other JVM custom metric sources, like micrometer. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Application monitoring plugin for Informatica powercenter

We were looking to monitoring the informatica ETL application at the client using instana. Unfortunately, couldn't find any plugin related to Informatica Powercenter 10.2.0 Hotfix 2 or 10.4.1 in the configuration.yaml neither at https://www.ibm.co...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Option to export audit logs using mTLS

To integrate Turbonomic audit logs to customer telemetry logging system, we need audit log export using mTLS. Even all the Turbo audit logs are syslog formatted, without mTLS log export, it would be very difficult to integrate with inhouse managed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Being able to add AWS observer using IAM roles instead of access and secret keys.

Customers have polices to changes keys every 90 days. it will be nightmare to change observer keys every 90 days. it will would be nice to add AWS observer target using IAM role. This is a must requirement from DISH Networks to do a POC.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Allow failover impact server in RBA configuration

When configuring RBA in a hybrid environment, with the Impact cluster on premise, there is only one option to configure the impact connection. There is no place to specify a backup server. if the primary impact server stopped, one would have to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Notification Toggle

After discussion with Business Partner in Taiwan, they would like to promote Turbonomic to their customers who also using AWS. However, their customer's AWS account is Block Billing, which means the AWS cost explorer API is not accessible in the c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration