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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 Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Non interactive account to install IWS

We need to be able to install the IWS MDM with a NON interactive Linux IPA service account. KPMG service accounts do not allow login nor can you 'su - ' to them. At thif tim version 9.5 and 10 require the TWS user account to have login capable int...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add support for C2S (Amazon’s classified Commercial Cloud Services cloud)

All federal intelligence agencies use C2S. In order to provide APM with Turbonomic to these customers, we must support C2S with Turbonomic.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1

Consistent Resizing based on Example / Template Server Group-

We'd like to request an enhancement to the "Consistent Resizing" feature that would allow an "example" or "template" server group to drive the sizing actions of several other linked groups. We would like to be able to divide our servers into diffe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration

CyberArk CCP integration (OS User method - kerberos) with IWA

We are expecting you to develop a solution to have CyberArk integration with TWS application via . For now, CyberArk integration with IWA (TWS) is supported with CP and CCP method. In our environment, it is not possible to implement CCP using clie...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support Tracing of Kong API Gateway

Instana currently does not support Kong Tracing. On our platform, the Kong API- gateway is a very central and important component. Hence, we'd like to see spans of Kong in our distributed traces.
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 2

Single execution plan for executing same action on systems located at different timezones, like Cloud Availability zones or regions

If I have a distributed application deployed at different timezones, I need to create many policies to execute an action at 6 AM on Saturday. This leads to a large number of execution plans and associated policies. If the action is same and need t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Not under consideration

Do not rewrite Instana Console UI URL to host_name in settings.hcl

We need to skip setting the host_name variable in the settings.hcl file. Whenever we are trying to login to the console using the IP address or the hostname or the loadbalancer URL, its redirecting to the defined value of host_name in the settings...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Third party library stack traces

Having the source map integrated into instana is very helpful, however sometimes, the stack trace is not that clear, because the stack trace reported is related to a third party library, and in this case the mapping is not very helpful
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

mapping js errors for backend

Actually, the source mapping is done only on front end errors It could be intertesting to have this mapping available also on the stack traces for backend side, since we have transpilation process between javascript and typescript
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives / Node / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Support for Grails in Application Monitoring & Tracing

Currently Grails application although running in the JVM can not be monitored on Application Monitoring mode.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration