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Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools

Proposed Enhancement Introduce a “Pause” and “Resume” functionality for Spark pools, similar to what exists for Dedicated SQL pools. This would allow: Temporary suspension of compute resources without deleting the pool. Retention of configurations...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Under review

Agent restriction to SaaS Backend

In an Instana SaaS environment where application server owners can onboard agents to the backend: Mechanisms to restrict what agents are allowed to report to the SaaS backend. A process to detect and remove any rogue agents that have been onbo...
2 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Under review

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting option? This is...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Instana should support LOKI as a log source

The latest versions of the OpenShift Logging Operator have dropped support for ElasticSearch and have moved over to LOKI. Instana needs to be able to use LOKI as a log integration source in order for us to maintain a vendor supported logging model...
5 months ago in Instana / Logging 2 Not under consideration

Remove Limitation for `OR` logical operator When defining multiple metrics by pattern, only one rule is allowed to use a different matching operator from 'is'.

I believe, this functionality was by design when there is only one logical operator i.e., 'AND'. However, there was an introduction of `OR` logical operator recently between the rules/condition thresholds for metrics. It makes sense to restrict fo...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Support for Temenos

We would like to request support for monitoring the Temenos Transact (T24) core banking platform within Instana. The customer is running Temenos Transact (T24) using a combination of: TAFC (Temenos Application Framework for C), and Java components...
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Future consideration

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Current Date formula in reports and/or filtering

I would like to implement a dynamic filtering mechanism that automatically adjusts based on the current date. Specifically, I want to embed a formula within the filter logic so that when a report is opened—regardless of how much time has passed—it...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 2 Needs more information