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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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Support for MicroProfile

We have microservices built on Eclipse MicroProfile would like to get this supported as well in Instana. MicroProfile provides standard implementations for metrics, tracing and health checks. We are using Payara Micro but also plan to use Quarkus.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Support for GraalVM

We have plans to use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/ for some of our microservices. Especially for cloud native applications GraalVM is a very interesting project. Spring Boot is working on supporting GraalVM with spring-native project: https://g...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Infrastructure Mapping for AWS Aurora/RDS instances

Currently we are facing the issue that for ex. AWS Aurora MySQL databases the infrastructure node is not mapped to the corresponding service in Instana. In the application perspective we can see the traces to this database instance. However, on th...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

supported cpu for detection of abnormal end of applications

One of our prospect of resell partner of Instana found that "no-support of Intel cpu" when its applications had been ended abnormally. The customer wondered why only AMD was supported, even Intel also share majority of market footprints. We need t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 3 Not under consideration

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

No tracking of user who executed a failed action

When someone execute some action on Turbonomic and this action fails (for any reason), the field that shows which user executed are not populated, even if we download the csv files. This lead to a security and behaviour track issues.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Is a defect

Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Report properly OOM pod events

Make sure all OOMs are reported properly.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Planned for future release

Add cluster wide usage lines to graphs

It would be good to have the same usage lines in the graph as we see them on namespaces or deployments.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration