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Provide ability to read Prometheus Metrics with Bearer token

Hi Team, We are trying to retrieve prometheus metrics in instana UI which are authenticated with bearer token. We followed below configuration, but it's not working, let us know is any other changes required com.instana.plugin.prometheus: poll_rat...
3 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Instana support for Oracle Data Guard

Customer needs support for monitoring Oracle Data Guard.
27 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
3 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Last Modified Date and Sorting

When you sort by name in Policies page, the sorting goes kaput when you go to the next page. Would be nice to have more than 75 as the number of items per page. I would like to get the Last Modified Date as one of the columns for sorting. Again, t...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Micrometer Metric Collection - Fine granular metric polling config

Currently, it is possible to configure the JVM Sensor's polling interval with the following in the configuration.yaml: com.instana.plugin.java: poll_rate: 60 It is also possible to separately configure the Prometheus Metric Collection's polling in...
7 days ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Submitted

Support for ElasticSearch v8.18 and higher

Currently, Instana Sensor supports until v8.17.1 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.299?topic=technologies-monitoring-elasticsearch#configuration. ElasticSearch has already moved to v9.x and Instana support for ElasticSearch has...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration