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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
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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Turbonomic support for Oracle Cloud

The support for OCI (Oracle Cloud) was initially raised as "TURBO-I-274", but it seems to have stalled in discussions, being marked as "Not under consideration". On the other hand, there has been an increase in the use of OCI among Japanese custom...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Need secure communications from the Instana Agent/Sensor to the IBM i server

Currently, all communications from the Instana Agent/sensor to the IBM i system are insecure. The customer needs to have SSL communications to ensure that traffic is secure.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Add support for pulling Kafka consumer lag time in Amazon MSK sensor

Currenlty we pull subset of metrics from what cloudwatch exposes for MSK, Customer requested that we pull Consumer lag time as well as this is key metrics they use for kafka performance trending.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Under review

Need ability to edit Topology generation results limit

Currently limit is 300 which is way too small for our network.
27 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

Need to be able to execute custom SQL queries via the DB2 sensor

While the DB2 sensor is good and has many metrics available, it never has exactly the metrics the customer is looking for. A customer has asked that the DB2 sensor be enhanced to allow them to execute a custom SQL statement and capture the results...
2 months ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Under review

Add capability to raise events for current resource usage by pod

Our customer monitors applications running in Kubernetes environment. The application may consume more resources than requests. When it reaches the limit OCP is restarting the pod, that causes service delay. They want to monitor when the resource ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

ORACLE TARGET SUPPORT

CLIENT: "I’d like the Oracle targets to be enhanced so a target can connect to multiple servers like the SQL targets can"
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review