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Method to completely disable the k8sensor deployment when using the instana-agent-operator

Customer would like to a way to disable the k8sensor within the kubernetes agent to manage data ingestion costs. The instana-agent-operator ignores the k8s_sensor.deployment.enabled: false configuration. This k8sensor activity counts towards data ...
25 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Entities Grouping based on tag

While the IBM platform currently supports tag creation for entities, the grouping functionality is limited to predefined categories such as accounts, applications, or container platforms. This idea proposes enhancing the grouping feature to allow ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Add support for AWS Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting AWS Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but AWS is offering reservation for other services also supported by Turbonomic e.g. AWS is ...

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
6 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 5 Not under consideration

Instana Should be Able to Check Server Time Drift

Instana does not have the capacity to check a Server time against a specified its time server . If a sever drift too much or does not apply its time change it cause business impact
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 4 Future consideration

Add Splunk APM as a native APM Target

Requesting target support for Splunk APM (SignalFX) for application infrastructure performance monitoring on AWS. During my customer's Turbo rollout, they came to realize that actions are being generated without APM insight that could be critical ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
3 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Add support for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Support for extracting metrics, logs, and traces from an Oracle Enterprise Service Bus.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration