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Availability Check of an SAP JAVA NetWeaver Instance and the necessary metrics

These are the relvante Metrics which we had to monitored: Java System Availability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<Port>>/startPage) Java-System HTTP-Avilability (check the https://<<saphostname>>:<<P...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Delivered

IsBank wants Instana to support Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version 4.122.x and above. Current support is 4.121.

We are experiencing some problems in monitoring the card system side, one of our most critical systems, on Instana. While the Oracle ODP (Oracle.DataAccess.Client) library version on the relevant servers is 4.122.1, Instana supports 4.121.2 and be...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Delivered

Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Integration - Cisco NSO (NetCONF)

I propose the addition of NetCONF protocol support within Rapid Network Automation. This enhancement has been requested by several telecommunications and large enterprise prospects. Implementing NetCONF support will enable the integration with net...
9 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 2 Delivered

Please version KubeTurbo helm chart in Chart.yaml when the Helm chart changes

Whenever the Helm chart changes for KubeTurbo, please also update the version number in the associated Chart.yaml file. The Helm chart for deploying KubeTurbo is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo We are wor...

Logs of span rate limiting should be write in INFO level in agent.log to detect it worked.

Instana manual explains as following; > If you see logs like Suppressed spans due to high number of short or Discarded span due to queue overflow in the agent log, it means that the Java tracer experienced heavy load on span processing. The des...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Logging / Tracing 2 Delivered

Consideration of Table View for OTel Attribute Display

A customer has suggested shifting from the current JSON view to a table view for displaying attributes in OTel, citing issues with key visibility in small browser windows. While the JSON format currently handles long resource attributes more effec...
9 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Delivered

DI Schedule/Deliver a Report to Multiple Recipients With Distinct Variable Settings

Data Insight is designed to promote reusability of Reports using Variables to configure a standard Report based on the Consumers' needs, but Reports cannot be reused if different Schedule/Recipients need different Variable settings to make the Rep...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Delivered

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
10 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered