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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Show all database traces even if they all succeed

We opened a case for missing database calls and learned how Instana works for successful calls. The engineering team sent us the following quote, "Span batching in general doesn't consider the payloads. The rules are based on span metadata like d...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Add ability to have common database credentials for jobs

Currently when database jobs are implemented, the DB login credentials have to be entered for each and every job. In the event of a password change in the database, this can require substantial manual effort and coordination to address. Provide an...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Target Configuration Guide needs least privilege for Azure SQL

As a user I would like the least privileges required to configure an Azure SPN for managing Azure SQL Databases with Turbonomic, so that I can can avoid having to use built in roles and providing too many permissions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI

Ability to access Application Logs from Instana UI from log management tools alike we now have the ability to access the logs based on infra entities.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Functionality already exists

Alerts for JVM Total Thread count

Could you please let know if we can create an alert if the total thread count is greater than a certain value
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for IBM Netcool/Impact

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Netcool/ Impact without having to acquire additional hardware
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Functionality already exists

IBM Tivoli Management Services need to support Linux on Z monitoring agent for Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus

The government of Canada has a very large Linux on Z environment and we want to make use of this footprint to run ITM monitoring agent for Omnibus without having to acquire additional hardware
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Functionality already exists

Start/stop instana agent looking for environment variable not set and maxdepth flag inside find which doesn't exist on AIX clients

Everytime an instana agent when stopped or started throws up this error on two environment variables not being set. JAVA_MAX_MEM' and 'JAVA_OPTS'. Assuming these needs to be defined in the setenv file. These variables needs to be set and exported ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Adding support EntityFramework Core 6

Provide the same functionality to EntityFramework Core 6 as it exists for: Entity Framework .NET >= 2, >= 3.
over 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Functionality already exists

Add (java) context to logs

We're currently writing java logs with logback/slf4j. Using the logstash ArgumentsJsonProvider in our logback.xml this allows us to extend the log message with context information like stack_traces, logger_name, log level but also custom informati...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists