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Add possibility for multiple Gate.Jdbc.Url's in JDBC gateway properties file

Is it useful for installations where for example DB2 databases are hosted on remote locations in different subnets (like geo redundant data centers) where virtual ip address cannot be created. Everybody with such db2 database would benefit from it...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

OpenSearch Support

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

All Search option

Hi, is there a possiblity to get an "all search" option in turbonomic or the ability to change the default "search vm" to a different kind like default "search groups". As we in the Atruvia using mostly groups it would be pretty good to start the ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Hide imported groups

Hi, as we are having so many groups in turbonomic it would be very helpful to hide all imported groups from our targets like vcenter or vmm. We dont need these groups and it only disturbes us while we are searching for something. It would be very ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Windows .Net service getting discovered without adding package Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Windows

Windows .Net service should auto discovered in Instana once instana agent is installed in the host without any code instrumentation or without adding Nuget package this will help us to avoid new release.
about 1 year ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration

Expand public cloud targets to include Oracle (specifically Oracle in C2E)

The US Federal government's C2E contract provides for AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle public clouds in isolated, classified environments. Oracle is the only cloud that we do not support on C2E (high-side). Please add Oracle. I am happy to share mor...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration