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Trace proxy of kubernetes clusters

Hello Team, our customer use Rancher’s (K3s) nginx proxy to proxy requests to their applications. as soon as half of their calls come through applications outside of the cluster they see “unmonitored” source for many calls. The proxy pods are in k...
24 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Monitor managed Kafka services with remote JMX (e.g. with Amazon MSK)

There is no supported method in Instana at the moment to monitor/observe managed Kafka services on the public cloud providers, e.g. Amazon MSK. Instana needs a way to pull in metrics and traces from Amazon MSK using remote JMX: https://docs.aws.am...
24 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Entity Split Screen Fields

As a person splitting an entity, I want all fields that are frequently used automatically populated. At this time, the fields on the split screen are predetermined. We would like the ability to manage which fields show for our users when splitting...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Zero-code discovery and instrumentation support for C++ applications in Instana

Description Currently, Instana does not support automatic discovery and instrumentation of applications written in C++ The agent is unable to detect and provide code-level tracing or service-level visibility for C++ processes. For organizations ru...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Reducing data load by optimazing JVM StackTrace storage

Data load is ending into high costs for Instana customers, and probably for Instana itself. Analyzing the root cause of these big ammounts of data sent to the backend, we have realized that JVM's stack-traces are big chunks of data, which are main...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Under review

Please provide support for Nexus 10.3 OS since 9.x firmware has become obsolete.

Would benefit all to backup configuration of switches which may be key and integral to processes.
28 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Built-in email notification target/workflows

Please implement a standard email notification target plus email workflows so that customers can easily implement an email notification for Turbonomic actions.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Add Search Functionality in Entity History Section for Improved Field Tracking

Currently, each entity has a history section where we can see the update history of each field. When there are only a few fields, the current UI works well. However, for entities with 100+ fields that are kept for long periods, tracking the histor...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Need NGINX tracer libs for ARM

Dear colleagues, our customer has a lot of NGINX 1.18.x servers with PHP-FPM combined on ARM architecture. We successfully instrumented PHP-FPM but those calls are torn out of transactions because of NGINX and we didn't find Instana tracer libs fo...
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 5

Need to be able to select which libs to attach to a pod

Dear colleagues, we have a customer who runs hundreds of .net pods in a cluster and just a few ruby, nginx, nodejs... containers. they actively use Autotrace Webhook. At the moment they reached the point where excessivve numebr of .Net application...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Future consideration