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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?

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Monitior Kafka Broker Certificate Validity

we are very happy with your Kafka Monitoring solution. There is one per broker metric which we believe is also worth monitoring. That is the validity of the SSL Certificate provided by the broker. If the certificates expire, the whole cluster stop...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Google Cloud Functions monitoring support

Hi, are there any plans for supporting monitoring on serverless platforms, particularly Google Cloud Functions or is there already a solution? Currently we are using Java Cloud Functions, but we also used Javascript based ones in the past. Third o...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting

We need the swap metrics to be measured as a percentage for alerting. We are configuring custom events to trigger on swap memory. Currently, both the Memory > Swap Free and Memory > Swap Total metrics are measured in Bytes. They need to be a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

.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...
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 3 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists

Include optimization options as dimensions in reporting

I'd like to generate a report on rightsizing opportunities and for that report to show me the various options (#1 #2 #3).  Currently, I can see data in the rightsizing UI and have to click on the three dots to see the other recommendations ou...
9 months ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration