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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Support for monitoring IBM Informix

Instana do not have support IBM Informix database monitoring. I suggest to add support.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Enhance abnormal process termination detection with process name/PID of the KILL signal origin

The eBPF process termination sensor could enrich generated the events with name and PID of the process that sent the KILL signal. Similar to what BCC does: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/killsnoop_example.txt
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

Need a even / alert generated for missing MQ Objects (queues/channels/topics/subscription etc) including system objects

These objects are very important if go missing, after some incident happens or someone deletes them accidentally can hamper entire MQ operation
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Make "In Error Predecessors" column clickable/to drill through the jobs via Monitor Critical Jobs in Dynamic Workload Console

Monitor Critical Jobs in DWC just shows the number of abend predecessor jobs in "In Error Predecessors" column. It will be better if the column is made clickable similar to "Not Completed Predecessors" so the errored predecessor jobs can be viewed...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring and Alerting of Turbo-XL instances

Hi Team, We have turbo instances running across both production and non production environments in OpenShift infra, however we do not have a monitoring enabled for them. Considering we need to be alerted incase of any issue we would like to know h...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1

VDI - GPU support/improvement

Improve on-prem placement and sizing analysis with additional GPU constraints: - Adding GPU related metrics - Placement actions to take GPU utilization & constraints into consideration - Scaling actions to update GPU profile (GPU size)

Provide a metric that shows actual usage of Azure disk drives along with allocated space.

Azure provides an ability to conduct a dynamic life resizing upward on disk drives, but not decrease in size. All current products and the Azure Portal will only show allocated drive space. We are unable to accurately determine if we over commit o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Omnibus Gateway map file conversion of UTC time values to date time string

Some OMNIbus Gateways produce output where UTC time values need to be written out as a date time string. For example it might be necessary to covert 1666183259 to 'Wed Oct 19 13:40:59 2022' or similar. The gateway mapping file process already pro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Messagebus probe should verify OAUTH token when acting as provider

When acting as provider for a webhook, the provided OAUTH token (via keycloak) is not verified. To enhance security the token (Authorization Bearer) should be verified against the resource server (i.e. keycloak). Example: We are using the messageb...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration