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Provide typings for NodeJS @instana/collector package

It would be nice to have typings for IDE Intellisense and compile-time checks, as originally requested in https://github.com/instana/nodejs/pull/458. I believe that Typescript plays an increasingly important role in the NodeJS ecosystem with frame...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Node 1 Not under consideration

Enable Multi Resource Graphing to have the option of going over 100% so that vCPU which can peak to 150% or more can provide context for rightsizing.

It used to be that the multi-resource graph went above 100% but some customers didn't like that. So it was capped at 100%. This customer though sees big value in seeing when those peaks happen for proper context on rightsizing decisions and troubl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2

Plan results shall include all commodities (e.g. IOPS) relevant for the resulting sizing

When running a plan, especially a hardware refresh plan, you cannot see the reasoning for the resulting number of hosts if the reason is a commodity like IOPS not displayed in the plan results. Therefore, please display all commodities (e.g. IOPS)...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Use optman parameter for progressive switchplan instead of modify script

Hello, Currently, there is two options to manage stop agent progression in switchplan : conman stop @!/@/@ \; wait \; noaskconman stop @!/@/@ ; progressive This two lines are in switchplan script in IWS install directory, one is commented the othe...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Capture custom HTTP response headers

Background and context A feature we use heavily with Instana is the ability to capture custom HTTP request headers. This gives us a great ability to analyse the data, slice and dice based on filters and groups on headers. A couple of simple exampl...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Python / Tracing 4 Planned for future release

Add Support for Play Framework 3.0

We have upgraded to Play Framework 3.0 in our application and now the Instana monitoring no longer shows application metrics. We are aware that the supported Frameworks list only shows support up to Play 2.8: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-ob...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 0

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work as it refers to the same URL. This is the case in all Turbo installations self-hosted and SaaS. Find attached a video outlining ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Instana openAPI should also provide Annotation Results for a POD/Deployment

When doing a call via the Instana open API, the current Snapshots are just containing the LABELS but no ANNOTATION. It would be really good also to see ANNOTATIONS as they also contain important data.
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 0 Future consideration

Put a configurable cap on concurrent automated actions for the cloud provider to help with throttling.

The client is experiencing AWS throttling for EC2 Scaling Actions. 1000 actions can happen at the same time but can fail mid action due to AWS Throttling. . There is a setting called " properties: action-orchestrator: actionExecution.concurrentAut...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Upgrading OMNIBus Probes to support the new version of NNMI (version 2020.08)

we have integration between OMNIbus and NNMI version NNMi 2019.11 and we have have to upgrade it to NNMi 2020.08. as shown in the below link that the OMNIBUS doesn't support the new version of NNMI we need Omnibus prbe upgrade to be compatible wit...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration