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Variable Capabilitiy for Instana's Grafana Plugin

The Instana plugin for Grafana needs support for variables to be used in dashboards and queries. Without this, a Grafana dashboard that displays Instana data must use hard coded server names in the queries. Thus, to show the same graph for a diffe...
10 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Instana tracing support for monitoring Dynamics AX 2012 ERP

Performance monitor our Dynamics AX 2012 R3 solution, which are our ERP system, and primary data accumulator. We want a special focus on SQL performance. The software running our Dynamics AX solutions is: Dynamics AX AOS server (.net application),...
11 months ago in Instana / .NET / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Agent for Kafka

It would be useful for our Company to be able to monitor Kafka leveraging the existing ITM infrastructure. As a second choice we would consider using the APM infrastructure
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Allow error logs to be viewed on the Turbonomic SaaS UI

When the probe target connection fails, the SaaS version cannot investigate the cause. For example, if the connection to GCP fails, the response from GCP will show the missing privileges. However it is not possible to check the message in Turbonom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Improved scoping on Host Unavailability Detection

As a user wanting to detect host unexpectedly going offline, I want to be able to filter the scope of this detector based on attributes beyond just host tags (e.g., to exclude a few of the worker pools from alerting using DFQ such as "entity.selfT...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Queued planning orchestration tied to automation

Would like to be able to create orchestration plans and priorities that drive automation within superclusters. Example: Create a proactive plan that as new hardware is added to a supercluster that older hardware is drained in the specified order a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

"mediation-vcenter" enables the use of a proxy

Currently, "mediation-vcenter" does not have a feature for connecting to vCenter via a proxy as it is intended for on-premise use. However, as the use of VMC increases, accessing via a proxy will become necessary in environments with strict securi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database

Would like IWS/IWA to support Postgres as a backend database.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration

restricting API source IP addresses

Anyone who knows API token can change Instana configuration with using Instana API. For security, I hope that Instana backend should be able to restrict API source IP addresses.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration