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Support for AHV VM storage

Currently AHV VHDs/disks are not stitched to VMs. Adding support would improve cloud migration planning and resizing/action recommendations.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Delivered

Add Required Investment to Top Accounts Widget Download

When you download from the Top Accounts widget, Potential Savings are part of the export, but the Required Investments are not included. This skews the data and could lead our clients who use this report to conclude that investments are less impor...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Delivered

Support AWS Cloudfront

Hello, Would it be possible to monitor AWS Cloudfront services in Instana ? Regards, Quentin
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Add time shift comparison on a weekly base

Update: I've just seen this is already implented :) Dear Instana Devs and POs, We really like the newly introduced "Time Shift" feature of Instana. However, for our use cases, the options "Previous Timeframe" and "Yesterday" are often not sufficie...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Delivered

PATCH method in the Restful plugin

We need PATCH method to be included in the IWA restful plugin for partial update to the resource. The current plugin does not support the Patch method.
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Delivered

Add authenticator module support in Instana Synthetics

The authenticator module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/authenticator) will help scripted browser tests respond to 2FA with an automatically generated TOTP. This helps automate Web pages that implement and enforce 2FA.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Delivered

To be able to monitor AlmaLinux

Currently AlmaLinux was not supported by Instana. Currently, the number of customers using AlmaLinux is increasing as it is the successor to centOS. So, it will be greate if Instana could monitor AlmaLinux.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Delivered

MQ Monitoring: Monitor the same Qmgr name on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml

Monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts in one agent configuration.yaml is not supported for MQ sensor. MQ sensor can monitor the same name Qmgr on different hosts, but need to be monitored from different agent host. MQ sensor support RDQ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Delivered

Implement capacity adjustability for active-active consistent resize groups

If we have a group of 2 active-active vms that are running at 80% capacity and one fails over all traffic to the other, we would exceed utilization capacity. We need to be able to configure this capacity limit for scaling purposes in these scenari...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Delivered